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Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period
169 temples which were built in Gujarat about the 12th cent. when present shrine aslo was constructed. The exterior is profusely carved, but the images have all been disfigured by the ruthless hand of the iconoclast who attacked it. 197
The shrine of Lakşmaņa, is plain as compared with Rāma temple and was probably left incomplete. The maņdapa is open and no dome surmounts it though the spherical base of its is there. The image which was enshrined in the temple is removed. The raised seat where it was fixed is, however intact.198
Vijapur:- Dist. Mehsana)
It abounds in Hindu sculptures of medieval period. It has a varāha shrine the image of which is made of black marble and is highly polished. 198/1
The Sun Temple at Bhimanath
At Bhimanath near Prāchi Kunda in Junagadh District is the ruin of sun temple, its plan resembles to that of the temple of Āditya at Latapur in Kashmir, built by Lalitāditya Muktāpid of Kashmir, measuring 17.2 ms. by 6.4 mis, inside with projecting windows, both from the mandapa and the pradaksiņā passage 19812 The Sürya nārāyaṇa temple near Somanath
This is of the same general plan as Bhimanatha, but smaller, being 14 ms. by 6.6 ms. inside. 198/3 The existence of this
197. ARAB. 1938. p. 2, para. S; plts. I, II. Here Figs. 114, 115 198. ARAB. 36-37 p. 3. 198/1. ARAB. '39 v. 9 para 23. 198/2. AANG. p. 73 Figs. 5 & 6; section across the mandapa and ground plan., Here Fig. 231. 198/3. AANG. p. 74 Fig. 7, ground plan. Here Figs. 86, 87.
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