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.)....
1.5. Temples at Khorasa (Junagadh)
The interesting inscription was originally obtained from the temple of Sun in Khorasa. It is at present lying in the temple of Naganatha Mahadeva at Chorwada. The record opens with an invocation to the Sun God. It supplies the information about the restoration of Sun temple in Khorasa by one Malla, which was formerly built by one of his predecessors. The date of the inscription is V. S. 1445 (1389 A. D.). 22 The Temple referred is extinct. The Inscription, lying on the western direction of Naganath temple at Chorwada, records the construction of a Siva temple at Khorasa in V. S. 1455 (A. D. 1399) by Sivaraja the local ruler. The temple does not survive.32/ 20. Inscriptions in Kathiawad Inscr. no. 39 p. 27 Line 6. Inscr., also published in Indian Antiquary Vol. VII. p. 186. 21. Inscriptions in Kathiawad Inscrip. no. 44 p. 33. * 19.2 Kms. to N. W. of Somnath patan, original name is Khuravasaka. 22. Inscriptions in Kathiawad Inscr. no. 47 pp. 36-37 also formerly published in Revi. List of Anti Rem. of Bom-Presi. p. 250. 22/a. Bhavnagar Pracin Sodha Samgraha List of Inser no. 128 p. 35.
206 The Structural Temples of Gujarat There was an old temple of Sun at Sonagadh (Dist. built during this century but it has Surendranagar) probably been pulled down, and site 23