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The Architectural Forms of Temples
303 steps. Similarly the temple at Bhadresvara is surrounded by 52 cells but in composition it is simpler for it contains only one maņdapa and a porch.77 The same is the case with the Kumarapāla temple at Girnar, 78 while the Namjnatha temple at Kumbharia has two maņďapas.
(e) Some of the temples have an intermediary section between the sanctum and the porch. Accordingly they consit of a sanctum, an antarāla and a porch. The typical early example of this group is the old Siva temple at Nandiśvara.79 The superstuctures display some early characteristics like Caitya-arch ornament and amalaka quions at interval over the facets of the Sikhara and a gable-roofed and pyramindal arrangement.
But the best specimen of this group is the Hingolaja-mātā (Sarvamangala devi ) temple at Khandosan.80 It displays all the Caulukyan characteristics in wall mouldings as well as in the superstructures surmounted over the garbhagriha and the attached porch. The porch has the leaning seat ( Kakṣānsana ) on its either side.
(f) The garbhagriha of the Śitlā-mātā temple at Piludra81 preserves the attached portion of the antarala while the maņdapa seems extinct. This is perhaps the solitary example of the temple consisting of a sanctum, an antarāla and a maņdapa.
(g) The temples of this type consists of the shrine, an antarāla, a circumambulatory and a mandapa.
77. AKK. Plt. LVIII. 78. AKK. Plt. XXXII. 79. Here Fig. 160/a. 80. ARAB. '39. Pl. IX. 81. Here Fig. 117.
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