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from the front of the
Owing to its balanced
rythmic grouping of its
the eye.35
The Structural Temples of Gujarat
porch to the back of the shrine.
composition, definite coherence and
parts it is much more pleasing to
(ii) The Pallava Phase (c. 600-900 A. D.)
phase fall into two
to c. 800 and (ii)
The structural temples of the Pallava
groups (i) Rajasimaha group A. D. 690
Nandivarman group c. A. D. 800 to c. 900 A. D.
With the rule of king Rajsimaha, the rock-cut method of
architecture ceased in South India. Instead of it, the art of structural
building was taken up. The production of the first group of temples
of this phase called R膩jsimha group began towards the end of the
seventh century and occupied the whole of the eighth century,
during this period several notable buildings were erected.
Of the Rajasimha mode there are some six examples, comprising
the 'Shore', I艣vara, and Makunda temples at Mamallapuram;
a temple at Panamalai in South Arcot district; and the temples
of Kailasn盲tha and of Vaikuntha Perumal at Conjeevaram. The
first Pallva building to be constructed of dressed stone was the
鈥� Shore Temple' so named in modern times as it stands on the
external foreshore of the ancient port 36 with the underlying
idea that cell should face eastwards overlooking the sea, so
that the shrine might be illuminated by the first rays of the
rising sun, the plan of the shrine left no room for a forecourt
or assembly hall, and not even for an entrance gateway and so
the shrine was left entirely open to the sea. 37
Not long after the erection of the shore temple at
Mamallapuram, a Siva temple, the Kail膩sn膩tha 鈥� was begun at
Conjeevaram, the capital seat of the Pallavas. The most
35. IABH p. p. 84.
36. IABH p. plt. Lii, Figs. 2 & 3
37. IABH p. p. 98鈥�99
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