The Structural Temples of Gujarat
by Kantilal F. Sompura | 1968 | 163,360 words
This essay studies the Structural Temples of Gujarat (Up to 1600 A.D.)....
2.8. Temple at Kanoda
Kanoda* Upon the south side of the village tank at Kanoda are the ruins of what must once have been a very pretty little temple. The mandapa is left, but the shrine hall all but disappeared-only part of the foundations the foundations now remaining; sufficient however, to show its size. Its door frame has fallen within it and lies in the form of the pieces of the two jambs and the lintel. 33/a The hall, though of much the same style and workmanship as the temple of Nilakantha Mahadeva at Sunak is arranged 33. Somanatha and other Medieval Temples of Kathiawad p. 62. * 6.4 Kms. S. W. to Dhinoj. (Dist. Mehsana) 33/a. The materials. sanctum proper has been re-erected recently with old
Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 109 somewhat differently having three porches to the Mandapa 84 The style of the pillars is much like the others already described, and, as at Sunak, we have the caitya-window ornament. on the basement of the screen wall. The basement or pitha itself is less in height in proportion as the temple itself is smaller than at Sunak, and accordingly the two upper mouldings, usually filled with elephants and human figures, are both omitted to reduce the height. The domical roof of the usual way, but instead of a a flat rosette or lotus, and dome to support as many dancing figures and musicians. 35 hall has been decorated in the central pendant ornament it has there are 16 brackets round the