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The temple is a three storeyed one, since the central fourfold image (Chaumukha) is a sort of tall shaft, at each storey there are four-fold images. Inscriptions on the back side of asanas of these Tirthankaras are partly covered with plaster and hence the date of the temple and names of all donors are not known. The few letters visible at present suggest that most of the images were installed in 1505 V. S by Samghavi Mandalika and his family. An approximate date for the erection of this shrine can be obtained by other means. In an inscription in the Digambara shrine at Delvada, dated in V. S. 1494 and in the inscriptions dated in 1497 V. S. referring to certain arrangements for the 36. IABH. p. pp, 164-165. 37 Tradition ascribes the restoration of this temple having been taken place in V. S. 1494 (A. D. 1438) by Samarasinha and Maladeva. The temple, named here as Kalyanatraya, was also adorned with a Meghamandapa (Rangasara 'Girnaragiri Caityaparipati' V. 18 and Hemahamsa Gani: Giranara Caitra pravadi '-Purattva Traimasika. Vol 1. No. 3 p. 292.)

214 The Structural Temples of Gujarat shrines of Srimata etc., the temple built by Bhimashah is noticed but this shrine in not mentioned. Similarly the inscription outside Pittalhara temple dated in V. S. 1489 expressly mentions three shrines at Delvada. These facts clearly suggest that Kharatar Vasahi was built after 1497 V. S. and probably by Sangavi Mandalika in 1515 V. S. ( 1458-59 A. D.) Being three storeyed with its pinnacle, this temple is the tallest shrine at Delvada. On all the four faces of the sanctum on the ground floor are four big mandapas adjoining the sanctum. The outer walls of the sanctum are carved with figures of Dikapalas (quarterguardians), Vidyadevis, Yaksinis and such other deties of the Jain pantheon as also Salabhanjikas etc. In this sanctum, each of the four faces, is installed a big stone sculpture of Parsvanatha, cenopied by nine snake-hoods and with eleborate parikara round each figure. There are some ornate Toranas (i. e. arches),88