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.)....
4.10. The Sitala Mata temple at Piludra
The Sitala Mata temple closely resembles of the old temple at Kasara or Kasra, a small village about 22.4 km. 198/4. Inscriptions in Kathiawad Inscrip. No. 20, p. 726 lines. 19-20. * along the sea-coast of Porbandar. 198/5. Smtk p. 87 plts. XCI, XCII. 198/6. Ind. Archaeology 56-57 p. 62. Here Fig. 116. 198/7. Architectural Antiquities of Northern Gujarat Plt. L, IX. Here Figs. 214/c, 214/d. 199. Baroda Archaeological Department 36-37 p. 6. Plt. Vedic Index
Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 171 west north west-of Patan. It must have been built about the 12 th Cent. A. D. i. e. at the time when the Sunak, the Sander and the Ruhavi temples were constructed. All these temples are similar to one another (Comparising drawings are given by Mr. Cousens) The finial of the Sitala Mata temple is missing but can be easily restored after that of the Nilakantha Mahadeva temple at Sunak or at Ruhavi. The miniature temples round the Sikhara and the mouldings on the Mandovara, the Jangha and the pitha or Upastambha give a very pleasing effect to the prospect and make it one make it one of the very noble piece of architecture of mediaeval Gujarat. 200 Shri A. S. Gadre believes that originally the Sitlamata temple must have been a Siva shrine, as can be inferred from the constructions of the temple, the passage for ablution water etc.201