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 Ground Plan of the Maná¸apa 369 number of prescribed varieties is 27.3 In plan they are either
square, triangular, circular, octagonal or with 16 sides.
The different varieties are based upon the varying number
of pillars, ranging from 12 to 64 through an addition of two
pillars in each succeeding variety. The maṇá¸apa with 12 pillars
is known as Subhadra, with 14 SyÄma, with 16 Simha and so on
till the last variety having 64 pillars.4
The scheme about the maná¸apas prescribed by M. P. is
followed by VKP.5 and by later canonical works like Sm. Su.6
APPR." KSR (MS),8 DipÄ, 9 and PM.10 Almost all the texts
have parallel names and identical specifications. But Sm. Su. 11
and APPR. have given several other types of maṇá¸apas in
addition to the types offered by M. P.
Sm. Su. (LXVI, LXVII) has described as many as 35
mandapas in two groups of 8 and 27, the first being known as
BhadrÄdi and the second PuspakÄdi. But the description of
Sm. Su. is imperfect and vague.
The BhadrÄdi group of mandapas in Sm. Su. is narrated as
VardhmÄnÄdi in APPR. 12 This variety of 8 maṇá¸apas are based
on the additions of several projections in their ground plans.
Accordingly the first variety VardhamÄna is square but additions
of bhadrÄdi projections over the square ground plan result into
seven more varieties. These eight maná¸apas are narrated as
Güá¸ha mandapa in PM.13
3. Ibid. 3-6.
8. KSR. (MS).
4. MP. CCLXX, 7--8.
9.
DÄ«pÄ X, 26â€�30.
s. VKP. VI, 125-136.
10.
PM. VII, 26.
6. Sm. Su. LXVII.
11.
Sm. Su. LXVI.
7. APPR. CLXXXVI.
12. APPR. CLXXXVII, 1-4.
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