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 *Kokra or Kakra (Kaccha): has two ruined old temples, both of them Śaiva. In the most easterly one there is a fine door to the shine...It is evidently old, of hard, compact stone, and has a Caitya window ornament over each jamb and the different comaprtments of the lintel. On the lintel Śiva is carved in the centre, Brahma on the left, and Vişņu on the right, in a very spirited style, with Kirtimukhas between. Some well sculptured pillars also lie about. 57
Kanthakot (Kiccha) also has an old Sūrya temple. The temple is a simple one, but in style and design it resembles that of Surya temple at Bhimanatha near Prabhas. The Sikhara of the Garbhagļiha and the dome of the Mandapa have fallen down.58
It consists of a square sanctum, an ambulatory, a closed hall and a porch in front of it. The ambulatory has three balconied windows around the square sanctum. The pillars of the hall are plain square ( Rucaka type ). The porch is also plain. The uttaranga of the squarish door-way has a panel of eight planets. 58/1 The śikhara, though completely ruined, seems to have been placed over the cella above, the ambulatory being covered with a flat roof.
Merutunga ascribes the construction of the Saiva temples of Candanātha and Cāciņeśvara (or Vācideśvara ) to king Camunda (997-1010 A. D. )59. His son Durlabha ( 1010-1022 A. D.) built the temple of Mandanaşankara for the spiritual welfare of his deceased brother Vallabha and also constructed a reserviour called Dūralabhasara at Aṇhilpura60, which according to some scholars was subsequently elaborated into the Sahasralinga lake. * About 1.6 Kms. South to Kanthakot in Kaccha. 57. AKK. p. 216. 58. BG. Vol. V. p. 225; also KSD p. 109 figs. on pp. 110-111 and 119. 58. 1. This reminds us the instruction of Vişnudharamottara regarding omission of Ketu (VDP. LXVII, 52). 19. PCT, 29; PCJ 20; DV. VII, 31; Ind. Ant. IV, 111. 60. PCT, 29; PC). 20.