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 Varāha figure upon the outside. The roof of the shrine differs slightly to that of Muni Bawa's temple and the pillars are practically the same.
In the village there is an old temple of Sivas 8 facing east resembling very much in details to those at Anandapur and Parabadi.
The Harsat Mātā and Nilakantha Mahādeva temples at Miani.*
The temple of Harsat Mātā3 9 is at present dedicated to Devi but originally it was dedicated to Siva.
Had this been intended as temple to a goddess, it would, most probably, have faced the north.
The shrine, contained a linga set in the middle of the floor, but this has been up-rooted and smashed, a portion, only, of the Salunka or lower part, remaining. Ganeśa presides above the door way, while above him, in a low, as at the temple of Sürya at Than are the Navagraha. The images have been disappeared from the principal niches around the outside of the shrine; the other images have been suffered greatly from the weather.
The door frame is of the usual style in this class of temple. The hall ceiling, which is supported on marginal pillars, rising off the seat that surrounds the hall, and two full length pillars standing upon the floor, is decorated in the usual style with horizontal bands of mouldings. The marginal dwarf pillars are of the same type as those at Sunak in N. Gujarat.4 0
38. SMTK. Plt. LXXIII. * Near the coast in the N. W. corner of Porbandar. (Dist. Junagadh) 39. SMTK Plts. LXXXIX & XC. Here Fig. 62. 40. AANG. p. 103 plts LXXXIII & LXXXIV; SMTK pp. 68 69