Structural Temples of Gujarat

SR No.: 006728
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kantilal F Sompura
Publisher: Gujarat University Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 868
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 31 MB

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The Structural Temples of Gujarat The larger of the two shrines at Sander, an old temple in the vicinity of Hingolaji Mātā temple at Khandosan, the triple shrine at Parabadi and the temples of Kanoda, Gorada and Chaubari and Harasatmātā and Nilkantha Mahādeva temple at Miani from the style of fragment preserved are to be affiliated to the Sunak group and so are to be assigned preferable towards the close of the 10th century A. D. 28
Sander* has two small disused but interesting old temples.29
The larger of the old temple is identical in plan and detail with that of Nilakantha teniple at Sunak, only smaller, being 8.7 ms. in total length from east to west. It faces the east, and the basement is buried to about 0.7 m. in the soil.
The sanctum of the temple is 4.3 meters wide and the maņdapa is only 5.3 meters in width. The total length of the shrine is nearly 9.6 meters. Except a few decorative motifs, almost all the details of the carvings of the various mouldings of the temple are similar to those of the temple of Nilkantha at Sunak.
The smaller shrine, beside the larger one, is a typical Ekāņdaka i. e. Eksringa prāsāda ( which reminds Burgess (AANG. p. 109) of the temples in Orissa, which have been ascribed to the sixth cent. A. D.). Above the shrine door is a figure of Gaņeśa, and over him, on the frieze, are the Navagrahas or nine planets similar to those on the door ways of two small shrines in the compound of the Amathora Mātā temple at Vadanagar (AANG. pit. LXIII) and Bhadeśvara shrine at Kaccha ( AKK. plt. Lxi. 2). From the transitional treatment of the Sikhara, this shrine can be chronologically placed with Roda temples, but it is also possible that the practice of such treatment continued to be in vogue even in later times. Similar treatment of the Sikhara is seen in shrines in the Kunda at Modhera which is definitely a work of 11th cent. A. D. 28. Majmudar R. C. Struggle for Empire' pp. 593-594. * 4 Kms. West of Ruhavi & 8 Kms. S-W from Sunak. (Dist Mehsana ) 29. AANG. Plts. XCIV, XCV. Here Fig, 59.