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.)....
1.15. Pre-Caulukyan temples at Ranavav
The old temple of Siva, 30 facing east, is situated in the compound of the newly built temple of Jadesvara Mahadeva. It has a square garbhagriha measuring 1.8 * 1.8 ms. The door of the garbhagriha (2·0 * 0.8 ms.) is a simple one. Its walls are 0.8 m. thick. The pradaksina patha arround it is 1 meter wide. In front of the garbha, there is an attached mandapa (5.2 x 2.10 ms.) covered by walls on the south and the north and open on the west with a row of four pillars supporting the western end of the flat roof of the mandapa. The garbhagriha is covered covered horizontal mouldings as those at 29. Here Fig. 26. * 12.8 Kms. E. of Porbander. 30. Here Fig. 20. with a spire with a spire having similar the Sun temple at Pasanavada.
Appendix A 503 Here the number of Caitya arches rises to six and hence the spire is comparitively higher than that of the Sun temple at Pasanavada. The spire is adorned with the usual amalaka and finial. The shafts of the pillars are square at the bottom, gradually growing round and tapering as they rise upwards. The bases of the pillars are usually square with torus at the centre. The bharanis or the capitals of the pillars have different carved figures such as the face of an elephant, a seated bull, a grasa, a kicaka,, the face of a tiger (vyaghra) etc. The temple is, to a certain extent, restored.