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[Full title: The vertical parts of the Mandapa鈥擳reatment in the extant temples; (g) Kakshasana or Candravalokana]

The balconies with its parapet wall, pillars and superstructure over it projects outwardly from the mandapa on its either side. At times it is enclosed by perforated stone screens. This is illustrated by the extant stone screen in one of the two balconies in the Gudhamandapa of the Modhera temple.76 The mandapas with storeys in their elevational part give more scope for beautifully decorated balaconies. The Kalika mata temple at Dabhoi and the Dwarkadhish temple at Dwarka have such balconies. From this it can be guessed that the mandapas of the extinct temples of Rudramala and Somnath also possibly had such balconies. 76. Similar balconies are also found in the circumambulatory. The Somnath temple (Prabhas) and Rudramahalaya (Siddhpur) both extinct had such balconies in their ambulatory. The Neminatha temple at Girnar, the sun temple at Prabhas on the river Triveni and the sun temple at Bhimanatha, have balaconies in the circumambulatories as indicated by their ground plans.