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Near Mahudi there is a Siva Shrine called Sankalesvara Mahadeva which has a Matrka panel fixed in hall or mandapa. 188. Baroda Archaeological Department 34-35 pp. 11-12; Archaeology in Baroda Pl V. * 189. The village is lying 10 kms. to the N. of Kheralu (Dist. Mehsana). 190. Baroda Archaeological Department 35-36 p. 15 para 30 plate IV. here Fig. 108. Shri Meter A. Dhaky compares this temple with the Nilakantha. temple at Sunak and believes that the same guild may have been responsible for building both the shrines. On stylistic grounds he assigns the same date Karna's reign (i. e. 1066-94 A.D.) as to that of Sunak temple.

Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period The slab is broken and only two figures are preserved, 191 165 The Siva temple of Bhadesvara ( South of Anjar in Kaccha) retains an old structure of Garbhgriha. There are beautiful sculptures in the walls. 192 The Jasamalnatha Mahadeva temple at Asoda (district Mehsana.) It is decidedly one of the best. The temple stands on a high plinth and commands a picturesque view. It consist of a small cella surmounted by a Sikhara, a porch and a Sabhamandapa with a dome resting on four main and eight subsidiary pillars. The porch in front of it has an ornamental arch springing from the snout of the makara resting on a standing lion on each side. The ceiling of the dome is decorated with human figures showing females standing on males in playful attitude. The exterior of the temple particularly the facade, is profusely carved. In style 191. Baroda Archaeological Department '39 p. 10 para 27, Some beautiful sculptures of the Gupta age have been found from the old temple of the Kotiyarka, apparently a sun-temple, a site 3.2 Km. from Mahudi on the confluence of the river Sabarmati and Hathamati. The find under notice comprises four images of bronze (1) The principle image of Buddha (in 7 th cent. style) (2) Yaksa, Kubera and Yaksini Hariti bearing a child on her left hand (3) Naga and Nagini and (4) an image of Buddha. (Baroda Archaeological Department '39. p. 7). An image of Parvati (Now transferred to New temple of Kotayarka at Mahudi) with a peacock behind her is fondling and feeding the child held on the shoulders of an attendant gana. The image, probably, belong to Gupta period. (Majmudar, Sculptures from Kotyarka, Journal of India Society of Oriental Art, 1941; also Chronology of Gujarat Plt. XXXV, A ). Another sculpture of Mother and Child possibly belonging to 7 th cent. A. D. (now in New temple) also is found (Chronology of Gujarat Plt. XXXV, B ). 192. Kacchanum Sanskriti Darshana p. 177, Pits: on pp. 174, 175, 176. here Figs. 109, 110,III.

166 The Structural Temples of Gujarat the carving belongs to about the 12 th Cent. and on that account the age of this interesting structure is not far remote from that of the sun temple at Modhera. 193. The temple seems to be Pancayatana type of temple as it contains four small shrines at the corner. There are also traces of two toranas in front of the temple. 194