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114 The Structural Temples of Gujarat The Amba Mata temple at Anjar (Kaccha) and the adjoining math (or monestery) are built of fragments of older temples. To a room over the enclosure gateway is a door of hard reddish stone, carved all round, which, from the repetition of Devi on the jambs and lintels may have belonged to a Vaisnava sakta temple. 50 The style of the carving places the temple in 10 th cent. A. D.51 Kotai (Kaccha) has several ruined temples of perhaps the earlier part of the 10 th cent. A. D. The temple dedicated Siva, is built of the yellowish and red stone used also at Kheda, and is roofed in a peculiar way. 51/1 The aisles are covered by a sort of groins, like the side aisles in some Caitya-caves; the nave is roofed in the same way as at the Amarnatha temple-at Kalayan, the central area being covered with massive slabs hollowed out in the centre. in which a pendentive has been inserted. Outside it has a slanting roof divided into four sections of slightly different heights that next to the spire being the highest, and the remote end the lowest; each section is terminated by a neatly carved gable end. 52 The porch has long since fallen away. The door of the temple has been neatly carved with the nine grahas or patrons 50. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 210 plt. LXI Fig. 2. 51. Kumara, Nos. 242, 243 pp. 41-44. * North to the shores of Kaccha Rana. 51/I. Cousens represented this temple as dedicated to Sun. (Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 214) But the decription given by him applies to the Siva temple situated at the adjoining site of Angorgadh. There was a Sun temple in its vicinity but it is in a completely ruinous condition since long. Probably Cousens misascribed the account of extant Siva temple to the extinct Sun temple. 52. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 214-215 Plts. LXIV; Kacchanum Sanskriti Darshana Plts. facing pp. 128-129. Here Figs. 70-73.

Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 115 of the planets over the lintel; the jambs are also carefully sculptured. In the Mandapa, which is 5.1 ms. square, are four pillars measuring 2.9 ms. to the top of the bracket, and with a square block sculptured below the bracket, and six pillars apparently inserted for the sake of uniformity only, for they are not of any structural use. The shafts 2 ms. high support a plinth 0-2 m. high, on which stands a block carved with colonnettes at the corners, and crowned with an amalasila-shaped member, the faces of the block being sculptured with figures of men and elephants. The total height is 2.6 ms. Among the four-armed figures on the brackets of the columns one is a female, and one has a face on the abdomen (as at Aihole). In the window recesses are also pilasters with four armed figures in the bracket capitals. The pillars and pilasters all are of (the Hindu) broken square form. 53. The shrine door is elaborately carved with two rows of figures on the frieze, Ganpati on the lintel, and the jambs richly ornamented. The area behind the central one is roofed with large slabs carved with 16 female figures linked in one another's arms in a circle, with the legs crossed and turned towards the centre. Each holds a rod or bar in either hand, the left hand being bent down and the right up, and so interlaced with the arms of the figures on either side. The roofs of the three aisles, at the sides and in front of the central area, are very prettily carved with flowered ribs, and three horizontal bands inclusive of that from which they spring.54 This temple faces the west. Of the three small temples to the west of it, two face east and one to north. The last has been a very small Vaisnava temple, but only a fragment of the 53. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 214. 54. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 214.

116 The Structural Temples of Gujarat shrine remains. Of the middle one also only the shrine remains standing; on the walls are carved a figure of Surya on the west face, and Sardulas in the recesses, Varaha has fallen of from the South wall, and there is a figure of Ganapati on the lintel, which seems to have been used in Saurastra, on Sun temples as well as those of Siva. Of the third temple a portion of the porch as well as the shrine remains. Over the head of the shrine door are carved the nine-grahas. On the north wall outside is Nrsinha, and on the west Visnu, both time-worn. much To the N. E. of this group are fragments of two other temples facing west. These are very simple and much plain temples. 55