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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The Architectural Treatment of the Manḍovara 399 But the canonical works like APPR., 4 KSR (MS)., 5 Dipā, 6
PM.T etc. have given full treatment of the wall mouldings
and their units of measurements under the head of maṇḍovara.
All these texts more or less agree in respect of the
nomenclature, while prescribing the units of measurements of
defferent types of mandovara such as Nāgara, Meru etc.
It will be interesting to note here that the formulae
prescribed for the mouldings of the mandovara by these works
apply to the Caulukyan temples of Gujarat to a large extent.
As described above all the Caulukyan temples have followed
these mouldings from bottom to top with slight variations
due to the rare additions and omissions and repetitions in the
case of multiplication of storeys in it. The mandovara of the
temple at Modhera has proved to be the best illustration
indicative of its full-fledged form.
Two types of maṇḍovara seem prevailing in Gujarat.
As indicated by the number of the mouldings the mandovaras
of the temples at Modhera, Sunak, Sander etc. belong to the
Nāgara type amongs the different types of the mandovaras
described in the canonical works.
The mandovara of the storeyed temples is classed under
the Meru type in canonical works. The mandovaras of the
storeyed temples like those at Ghumali, Sejakapur, Somnatha
(extinct), Taranga, etc. illustrate this type.
ʰ
Just above the Kuaṭachadya of the mandovara is superimposed
an entablature known an ʰ. In the case of a shrine
with a curvilinear sikhara the entablature rests simply on the
walls of the shrine. It generally consists of several mouldings
such as Kumbha, Karṇa, Chādya, Karṇikā, Paṭṭikā, Antarapatra etc.
4. APPR. CXXVI, CXXVII.
5. KSR. (MS) CIV, CVII.
6. Dīpā V.
7.
PM. III.
