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 Ground Plan of the Garbhagļiha
339 sixteen points. 33 Further, each side may have also laternal projections. The ground plan of the temple at Galateśvar ( Saranal )3 4 is eight-sided.
Functions of projections :- The treatment of projections and recesses is a matter of absorbing interest to one who views a building as a composition in lights and shadows. The design of mouldings and the relative propositions of their projections are considered so as to fit in with the elaborate play of light and shadows. The intricacy and depth of mouldings, the sharpness and softness of their edges are qualities which lend nicety to structure. The projections and recessions, in otherwords, are designed as light-catching and shadow-throwing devices.
(ii) An Indentification with defferent Types Discerned In The Canons.
In early works like Br. Sm., 35 M. P.,86 Ag. P.,37 Vk. P.38 etc. the site of a shrine is required to be apportioned into compartments by dividing the length and breadth into an equal number of parts. (Viz. 64, 81, 100 elc. ) such sites may be of any of the forms square, rectangular, hexagonal, octagonal, oval, circular etc. 33. ASWI, III, pp. 20-21 & Plt. XVIII. This shape is rare in Gujarat. The ground plan of Sūryanārāyana temple at Ranakapur is also octagonal. 34. ASWI, VIII, The Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmedabad. Pt. II, plt. LXXXIV. 35. Br. Sm. LII, 55-56.
37. Ag. P. CIV. 1-4. 36. M. P. CCLIII, 19-48. 33. VKP. V. 5-23. According to Višvakarmā Śilpa, which sites should be divided into 8X8, 9X9 and which into 10X10 and so forth, is also explained. It prescribes two forms (viz. 8X8 & 9X9) foi Prāsādas (shrines). राजवेश्भ निवेशेच गृहादीनि च वणिनां । एकाशीत पदेनैव शक्रस्थानं चमापमेत् ॥ प्रासादान्विधान् छन्दांस्तथाद्यां श्वाष्टमण्डपान् । एकाशीति पदेनैव सर्वानेतान्प्रमायेत् ॥