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A Survey of the Structural Temples of Pre-Caulukyan Times 81
Pradaksi峁嚹� have fallen, and where the slots along the top of
the wall of the shrine, show where the lower roof of that
passage joined it at the base of the Sikhara. The pillars within
are of not quite so simple a type as those in the temple of
Varaha at Kadvar. The central bay of the ceiling is closed by
three huge flat slabs without ornament; the side ceilings and
the ceiling of the Pradaksi峁嚹� slope from the centre to the sides,
the slabs resting upon heavy beams are placed at intervals. The
doorways are severaly simple, and they each have upon the
dedicatory block an image of Ganapati. The forward part of
mandapa, with a flat roof seems to be an addition or
rebuilding of a porch that had fallen. Besides the temple, upon
its south side, is a modern one of the Navagraha or nine
planets. 40
4:
At Visavada41 (Dist. Junagadh) there is a much older
temple of Sutrapada style now in disuse and partly ruined.
It is massively built and plain. In the shrine are some mutilated
images, among them being one of Surya, so, possibly, the
temple was originally dedicated to him. Nearly two killo-meters to
the N. W. of this again, standing isolated in the fields, is a very
small shrine, which is certainly oldest at this place. 41陋 It is
a small square building standing upon a ruined basement.
Before it stood a porch which has now disappeared; it can be
seen where it was attached to the front wall of the shrine.
The fall of this part damaged the masonry around the doorway
part of which has blocked up to give support to the lintel.
There may have been an enclosed passage around shrine as
in the Kadvar temple, but there are no indications of one
having been attached to the walls of the shrine, the walls.
being perfectly plain between the basement and the eaves.
The stepped out pyramid roof is, if anything, simpler than that
40. The present image, in the old shrine at Sutrapada has been installed
by one Thakar Vi艣aladeva in V. S. 1357 (A. D. 1300-1)
41. SMTK. plt. XLV. Here Figs. 4, & 217.
41a. SMTK. plts. XLIII, XLIV; Here Fig. 5