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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surrounded with buildings that
is left. It is built of sand stone,
repaired, the whole must give evay in a short time."
scarcely a space of one meter
but so weather-worn that unless
Gedi, in Kacca, has the white-lime stone temple of
Acaleśvara Mahadeva built by Sachora Brahmin Goval Dave
in 1579 A. D. The Linga in the shrine has four faces of
Mahadeva carved on it.73 The shrine is simple in plan and
design.
The original shrine of Parsvanatha at Gandhar (Dist. Broach)
was constructed in V. S. 1643 (A. D. 1587).7*
The inscription dated V. S. 1661 (A. D. 1605) found in
the present temple of Vijaya CintÄmaṇi PÄrÅ›vanÄtha at Cambay
records its erection in V. S. 1646 (A. D. 1590) by TejapÄla Soni.75
There is another lofty temple known as Cintamani PÄrsvanatha
at Cambay which seems to have been built in V. S. 1644
(A. D. 1588) by two brothers known as VÄjiä & RÄjiÄ.76 This
temple is built of red sandstone and marble. It is a three
storeyed temple, with 52 DevakulikÄs surrounded by.
The foundation stone of the temple known as Sethana
Mandira at Jamanagar was laid in V. S. 1633 (A. D. 1577)
72. ASWI. (in the province of Kutch) D. P. Khakhar. (1879)
pp. 13-14.
73. B. G; V. 221.
74. The temple is restored in V. S. 1964. The inscription recording
the restoration of the said temple gives an interesting account of the
original temple (Visalavijay KÄvi-Gandhar-Zagadiya' p. 39) The
present temple comprises the shrine proper, SabhÄmaṇá¸apa and the
eleven shrine cells in circumambulation.
75. ṚsabhadÄsa 'HÄ«ravijayarÄsa'.
76 PJLS. Pt. II. inscription no. 450 pp. 284 ff.
