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 Component Parts of the Full-Fledged Temple 35 NÄgari and Deva-nÄgari, as their scripts. The country known
as was the original home of these races. They, agreeably
to the exegencies of the times, spread over at different times.
in history and in different batches small or great into Gujarat,
Malva, LÄta and on the South and ч,
,
etc. on the
included in its
east. Similarly, the middle zone known as
boundaries the etc. The people of this zone speak
a and the last and the Southern most division includes
the Tamil speaking races. Kerala forms a part of this. The
Dravidian territory includes the northern half of Ceylon and
extends northward up to an irregular line drawn from a point
on the Arabian Sea about 1000 miles south of Goa along the
Western Ghata as far as Kolhapur, then north east through
Hydrabad and further east words to the Bay of Bengal. The
old or Telugu country covers about 8000 Sq. miles and is
bounded on the east by the Bay of Bengal, on the north by
the River Godavari and on the South by the Kṛṣṇ� (Preface of
Dr. Burnett, Catlogue or Telugu works.) 13
All the available texts are agreed on the point that the
Nägara style was prevalent in the region between the Himalays
and Vindhyas (NÄgarasya Smá¹ito deÅ›aá¸� Himavad-Vindhyam-
adhyaga�-Iśängurudevapaddhati, Silparatna etc.. Similar state-
ment is also seen in KasyapaÅ›ilpa and KamikÄgama) while
Aparajitapá¹›accha confines the Nagari (NÄgara) style to
MadhyadeÅ›a and further mentions LÄá¹i and VairÄá¹i (evidently
the styles prevailed in LÄá¹a and VirÄá¹a (Varada) regions) as
separate styles (Nagari MadhyadeÅ›a tu LÄá¹Ä� LÄá¹a prakÄ«rtitÄ-
APPR.) These LÄá¹i and VairÄá¹i may be considered as remifications
of the Nagara style.
But, it is noteworthy that these styles are not exclusively
confined to any region or race as all the styles are found more
or less in all parts of the country. Nearly all the texts or canons
13. APPR. Int. p. XXXIII
