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At Gorad* there is a small old temple, dedicated to Somesvara Mahadeva. The shrine has a sanctum and a porch only. The basement and mandovara are decorated with usual courses of mouldings. The Sikhara and the roof of the porch are partly ruined. The dwarf pillars of the porch are of usual vase-andfoliage (Ghatapallava) type and the ceiling is of the Samatala type showing compartments adorned with floral motif. Part of the basement is now buried below the present ground level; the porch appears to have been rebuilt, and is not bounded with the masonary of the shrine and prominent moundlings of its base are 0.2 m. below the corresponding ones of the shrire. It faces east.36 The shrine in the tank of village Chaubari@37 was probably Vaisnava as image of Sesasaya was found lying within it, and 34. Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat Plts. XII; XCVI Fig. 3; Here Fig. 233. 35. Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat pp. 110-111. Shri Meter A. Dhaky places this temple in the reign of Kumarajala ( 1144-77 A. D.) (The Chronology of Solanki Temples of Gujarat p. 57) *4. 8 kms. N. E. of Dhinoj. (Dist. Mehsana ). 36. Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat p. 111; Pit. C 11. CIII. Here Fig. 61. @ 6.4 kms to N. E. of Anandapur (Dist. Surendranagar ). 37. Somanatha and other Medieval Temples of Kathiawad p, 63 plt LXXII.

110 The Structural Temples of Gujarat Varaha figure upon the outside. The roof of the shrine differs slightly to that of Muni Bawa's temple and the pillars are practically the same. In the village there is an old temple of Siva陋8 facing east resembling very much in details to those at Anandapur and Parabadi.