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Kheda (Khedakot) has an old Siva (Lakhesvara) temple of, perhaps, the end of the 10 th cent. A. D. thrown down by the earthquake. The shrine still stands, and measures 2.6 ms. square inside, with walls 0-9 ms, thick, surrounded by a pradksinapatha, or path for circumambulation, 0.9 m. wide, the Vimana measuring 7.4 ms. over all. This temple has been built partly of red and partly of yellowish very hard stone. Of the mandapa which was 5.7 ms. wide, only a part of the north wall with one window in it is left; all the rest is a heap of ruins, and the amlasila of the Sikhara lies outside, a block about 2 ms. in diameter. The sculptures on the walls are not numerous, but have been superior to the usual run of such work and the elaborate ornamental work on the faces of the spire has been largely undercut; it represents the Caitya window, repeated over a triangular face, with human figures between. Of these triangles of sculpture there are eight on each side, gradually diminshing in size as they rise higher and higher, one behind another, like so many gable ends. The corners of the shrine are surmounted by miniature spires, 55. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada pp. 214-215. * 20.8 Kms. south of Bhuj in Kaccha. It is an ancient Kapilakota, the capital of Ra'Lakha.

Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 117 reaching not quite half the height of the sculpture and above there are other four similar, but set further inwards; above these and the sculpture rises the massive outline of the great central spire of the Sikhara, all beautifully carved. To light the pradksinapatha, there is a window perforated stone on each side. 86