Essay name: The Structural Temples of Gujarat
Author:
Kantilal F. Sompura
Affiliation: Gujarat University
This essay studies the Structural Temples of Gujarat (Up to 1600 A.D.).
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Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 171 west north west-of Patan. It must have been built about the
12th Cent. A. D. i. e. at the time when the Sunak, the Sander
and the Ruhavi temples were constructed. All these temples
are similar to one another (Comparising drawings are given
by Mr. Cousens) The finial of the SitalÄ MÄtÄ temple is
missing but can be easily restored after that of the Nilakaná¹ha
Mahadeva temple at Sunak or at Ruhavi. The miniature
temples round the Sikhara and the mouldings on the Maṇá¸ovara,
the JanghÄ and the pitha or Upastambha give a very pleasing
effect to the prospect and make it one
make it one
of the very noble
piece of architecture of mediaeval Gujarat. 200
Shri A. S. Gadre believes that originally the SitlÄmÄtÄ
temple must have been a Siva shrine, as can be inferred from
the constructions of the temple, the passage for ablution
water etc.201
Mevum (Dist. Mehsana)
It has an old ruinous sanctuary called Nagapuri mÄtÄ temple.
The cella contains several loose images and in the walls.
several Jain sculptures are built. Apparently they belong to
an old shrine now no more in existence. 202
Linch. (9.6 kms. to the west of Jagudan, Dist. Mehsana)
Here there is an interesting shrine called JakharÄja MÄtÄ
Shrine which would remined one of the Yaká¹£a worship that
prevailed in ancient India. 202
Butapaladi (8 kms. N. W. of Mehsana).
There is a fine Sikhara temple dedicated to Brhamīni the
Sakti of BrahmÄ. It seems to have been built about 12th cent. A. D.
200. ARAB. 36-37 p. 6, Plt. VII. Here Fig. 117.
201. A. S. Gadre. AB. p. 15
202. ARAB. 36-37, p. 8
202. ARAB. 36-37, p. 8
