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Structural Temples after the end of the Caulukyan Period 235
Shri Dhaky commences the Solanki style with the reign of
Bhimadeva I (1022-1066 A. D.), assinging the period of
Mular膩ja I (942-997 A. D.) and other predecessors (997-1022 A. D.)
to what he styles The Turning Point'. Under this group he
introduces the 膧din膩tha temple at Vadnagar in addition to the
known extant monuments of this period. The older portions of
the Adinatha temple are assigned by him to the last quarter of the
10th cent., while the later portions, including the Sikhara and
G奴岣峢ama峁囜笉apa, are put in the 13th cent. A. D. Moreover he
holds that M奴lar膩ja probably built a large and superb temple
of Somanatha at Prabhasa and the large Hateke艣vara temple at
Vadnagar. But these are both assumptions which contain
incongruity with the known facts. As for the temple of Soman膩tha,
the early phases mentioned in the Solanki inscriptions contain
no reference to M奴lar膩ja. Nor does the successive strata of
structure unearthed in the excavations conducted by Shri Thapar
in 1950 reveal any phase intermediate between the early phase
of the Maitraka period and the next phase of the reign of
Bhimadeva 1. The assumed association ot Hatake艣vara temple
with M奴lar膩ja also hardly seems convincing. He remarks that
the original temple was of Latina class like R膩峁嘺kadevi temple
at Wadhwan but he does not specify how the Ve峁噓ko峁�a of the
M眉lamanjari gives a clue to the nature of its Sikhara and the
date of its construction.
Shri Dhaky attributes the Solanki style to a synthesis of
the indigenous Gujarat elements and the elements adopted from
Rajasthan, and corroborates it by citing the circumstances of
the increased contacts with Rajasthan. The cultural contacts
between Gujarat and Rajasthan no doubt received an impetus
during the period of the Solanki kings, but the evolution of the
form of the temple architecture in Gujarat even during the
pre-Solanki period also reflects some elements found in the
early temple of Rajasthan. In facts, Gujarat and Rajasthan seem
to have evolved almost a common form of art and architecture
known as the Western school, i. e. the school of Western India.