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The Structural Temples of Gujarat
and four pilasters, 18 on the screen wall and 12 of them
round the dome, which covers 7 ms. sqaure inside the columns.
The pillars are square to about one third their height, then
octagon, and lastly round. The shrine has been a larger one,
fully 7 ms. square, domed on 12 pilasters, 0.5脳0.3 m. with
four armed figures on the brackets. The brackets on the columns
of the ma峁囜笉apa are plain, but a plinth of 0.2 meter deep above
the bracket is carved with a raised geometrical pattern. The
front of the brackets are also carved as in those of the
Bhadresvar temple. The temple has been built of stones.
Over the shrine door is a Devi probably Bhav膩n墨,
There is an inscription on the pilaster to the right of the
shrine door, dated S. 1346 (A. D. 1289-90). 274
The stone inscription of Cintama峁噄 P膩r艣van膩tha at Cambay
records that the temple was built in the time of Ramadeva,
son of Arjunadeva of the Vaghela dynasty in V. S. 1352
(膧. D. 1296). The inscription records that one Badal膩 built a
temple of P膩r艣van膩tha and her son Vikala built a ma峁囜笉apa in
front of the temple of Surya. 275 The present temple of
Cint膩ma峁噄 P膩r艣vanatha seems erected on the old site, but it does
not retain its original form and design. The next temple
mentioned in the inscription does not survive.
The existence of a Sun temple in V. S. 1354 (A. D. 1298)
is shown by the Murlidhara inscription of that year, in which
mangala verses are in praise of Sun as two verses (vv. 20-21)
refer to the attainment of Suryaloka by a warrior, so that it is
evident that the prasasti was composed in connection with the
erection of a sun temple. The aforesaid inscription has been
found at the Murlidhara temple at Bhiloda (near Idar). 276
274. AKK. p. 209-10
275. BPSI. 227, vv. 14 & 16.
276. Budhiprak膩艣a, 1710,79 ff.