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 and four pilasters, 18 on the screen wall and 12 of them round the dome, which covers 7 ms. sqaure inside the columns. The pillars are square to about one third their height, then octagon, and lastly round. The shrine has been a larger one, fully 7 ms. square, domed on 12 pilasters, 0.5 0.3 m. with four armed figures on the brackets. The brackets on the columns of the mandapa are plain, but a plinth of 0.2 meter deep above the bracket is carved with a raised geometrical pattern. The front of the brackets are also carved as in those of the Bhadresvar temple. The temple has been built of stones. Over the shrine door is a Devī probably Bhavāni,
There is an inscription on the pilaster to the right of the shrine door, dated S. 1346 (A. D. 1289-90).2 74
The stone inscription of Cintā maņi Pārsvanātha at Cambay records that the temple was built in the time of Rāmadeva, son of Arjunadeva of the Vaghelā dynasty in V. S. 1352 (Ā. D. 1296). The inscription records that one Bädalā built a temple of Pārsvanātha and her son Vikala built a maņdapa in front of the temple of Sūrya.275 The present temple of Cintamani Pārsvanātha seems erected on the old site, but it does not retain its original form and design. The next temple mentioned in the inscription does not survive.
The existence of a Sun temple in V. S. 1354 (A. D. 1298) is shown by the Murlidhara inscription of that year, in which mangala verses are in praise of Sun as two verses (vv. 20-21) refer to the attainment of Sūryaloka by a warrior, so tnat it is evident that the prasasti was composed in connection with the erection of a sun temple. The aforesaid inscription has been found at the Murlidhara temple at Bhiloda (near Idar), 276
274. AKK. p. 209-10 275. BPSI. 227, w. 14 & 16. 276. Budhiprakāśa, 1710,79 ff.