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Sander* has two small disused but interesting old temples.29 The larger of the old temple is identical in plan and detail with that of Nilakantha temple at Sunak, only smaller, being 8-7 ms. in total length from east to west. It faces the east, and the basement is buried to about 0.7 m. in the soil. The sanctum of the temple is 4.3 meters wide and the mandapa is only 5-3 meters in width. The total length of the shrine is nearly 9-6 meters. Except a few decorative motifs, almost all the details of the carvings of the various mouldings of the temple are similar to those of the temple of Nilkantha at Sunak. The smaller shrine, beside the larger one, is a typical Ekandaka i. e. Eksrnga prasada (which reminds Burgess (Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat p. 109) of the temples in Orissa, which have been ascribed to the sixth cent. A. D.). Above the shrine door is a figure of Ganesa, and over him, on the frieze, are the Navagrahas or nine planets similar to those on the door ways of two small shrines in the compound of the Amathora Mata temple at Vadanagar (Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat plt. LXIII) and Bhadesvara shrine at Kaccha (Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada plt. Lxi. 2). From the transitional treatment of the Sikhara, this shrine can be chronologically placed with Roda temples, but it is also possible that the practice of such treatment continued to be in vogue even in later times. Similar treatment of the Sikhara is seen in shrines in the Kunda at Modhera which is definitely a work of 11 th cent. A. D. $ 28. Majmudar R. C. Struggle for Empire' pp. 593-594. * 4 Kms. West of Ruhavi & 8 Kms. S-W from Sunak. (Dist Mehsana) 29. Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat Plts. XCIV, XCV. Here Fig, 59.

Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 107 In the carving here, as in the old shrine at the tank at Delmal 30 the cripness and depth even of the surface ornament is noticeable, and though weathered by centuries, it still strikes the eye by the rendering of light and shade. Over the shrine doorway, Ganesa is carved on the usual projecting block, whilst above are Brhama, Visnu and Siva In the dome of the mandapa are eight female dancing bracket. figures-where at Sunak there are twelve. The Samavarna over mandapa is one of the finest surviving in Gujarat. Outside, in the principal niche in the back or west side of the shrine, is a figure of Siva, on north is Visnu and on South Brhama, 31