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

Page 260

Structural Temples after the end of the Caulukyan Period 205
The event is recorded in an inscription which is dated V. S. 1437 ( A, D, 1380 ). O
Somnath Patan
The inscription dated V. S. 1442 (A. D. 1385 ) originally found set up in the eastern i e. Triveni gate of Somanath patan is now built up in a wall of the Vahivatdar Kacheri, In the margin of the Inscription, there is a note to the effect that the temple of Sangameśvara was built in V. S. 1448 after which the inscription seems to have been engraved. 9 1 The temple is extinct.
Khorasa* (Dist Junagadh)
The interesting inscription was originally obtained from the temple of Sun in Khorasa. It is at present lying in the temple of Naganātha Mahadeva at Chorwada. The record opens with an invocation to the Sun God. It supplies the information about the restoration of Sun temple in Khorasa by one Malla, which was formerly built by one of his predecessors. The date of the inscription is V. S. 1445 (1389 A. D.)., The Temple referred is extinct.
The Inscription, lying on the western direction of Naganath temple at Chorwada, records the construction of a Śiva temple at Khorasa in V. S. 1455 (A. D. 1399 ) by Sivarāja the local ruler. The temple does not survive.8 2/•
20. IK. Inscr. no. 39 p. 27 Line 6. Inscr., also published in Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 186. 21. IK. Inscrip. no. 44 p. 33.
* 19.2 Kms. to N. W. of Somnath patan, original name is Khuraväsaka. 22. IK. Inscr. no. 47 pp. 36-37 also formerly published in Revi. List of Anti Rem. of Bom-Presi. p. 250. 22/a. BPSS. List of Inscr. no. 128 p. 35.