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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Appendix A 513 village. The temple is approached by a stone bridge supported
by 24 stone pillars, placed in two rows of 12 pillars each,
being located at the interval of 2 meters each. The bridge is
nearly 2 meters high from the present ground level. The
buried portion of the bridge suggests that it is a storied-one,
the lower storey being buried beneath the ground. The exposed
steps, attached to the Ghata of the tank and leading to the
down storey, support the assumption about the existence of
lower storey of the bridge. The bridge is nearly 25 meters in
length and its outward width is nearly 2.5 meters. Inwardly
it is round about 2 meters in width. The stone-paved bridge
is flanked by a parapet like vedika carved with heavy lozenge-
shaped design on its external side and superimposed by
sloping seat (kak峁sanas).
The platform (Jagati) on which the extant temple rests
is nearly 10 脳 8.75 meters in size and is corresponding to the
bridge 2 meters high from the present ground level. Except
from the west (as it is attached in that direction with the
stone bridge) it has a flight of steps leading to the water level
on all its sides. The portion of it in veiw contains mouldings
like ratnapattik膩, kumbha, kala艣a etc.
The temple faces west i. e. in the direction on which the
village is situated, and is approached by a small flight of steps
resting on the platform. The temple originally consisted of a
garbhag峁沬ha ( measuring nearly 2 meters square, now extinct) and
an open mandapa fronted by small rectangular porches on three
sides. Only the mandapa and porches now survive, the rest,
along with the upper portion of the superstructures of the
ma峁囜笉apa and porches, being lost. (Fig. 162).
meters. The
The square mandapa measures 4.5 脳 4.5
porches on its sides are 1 meter in length and 0.5 meter in
breadth. The supersrtucture of the man岣峚pa is supported by 12
pillars (2.2 meters in height). The projected porches are
supported by two more pillars each. The upper portion of the
superstructure of the mandapa, which originally might be of
