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 type of Jain temples is characterised by a common shrine with maņdapas on all its sides.
Sometimes the tamples of the main deity is surrounded by temples of its four sub-ordinate deities, clased as Parivāra devatās. The group is known as Pancāyatana ( five Temples ).
The Caulukyan temples were all built during a glorious but limited period of about three centuries and a half. The architectural form of the temple had attained full development in its ground plan almost in the early part of this period and hence we hardly find any distinct stages of evolution in the subsequent monuments of the period. 5 5 As regards elevation a few temples follow a simpler form of treatment56 in comparision to the other temples, the śikharas of which are endowed with their miniature replica. Leaving aside this exception, the Caulukyan temples display almost uniform development even in the treatment of their elevation.
Unlike the pre-Caulukyan temples, the Caulukyan temples are almost uniform in the treatment of elevation, but they differ widely in the number of their horizontal components. For the sake of convenience they may, therefore, be grouped according to the disposition of their ground plan.
55. In the Archaeology of Gujarat Dr Sankalia classifies the temples of Caulukyan period into two groups (1) Early Type and (2) Late Type. In the beginning he claims that the classification is partly based on the style of architecture (p. 73 ), but latter on admits that in the late type temples there is nothing fundamentally different from the temple of Early Type, and that the former partake much of the decoration of the earlier temples. But additions here and omissions there relegate the temples to the late period (p. 100). Here it may be noted that additions and the omissions pointed by Dr. Sankalia in his description of the late Type temple apply to decorative details rather than the main architectural form. 56. This is illustrated by the small temple at Sander near the large one.