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 Vertical Treatment of the Base
391 of a rampart lion between the two elephants. This device is also applied to the basement moudings at Shamlaji, where the twin large elephants with a rampart lion in the centre are carved.4
The basement of Navalakhā temple at Sejakapur contains all the mouldings displayed by those of the temple at Ghumali. (ii) Canonical principles discerned.
The early works like Br. Sm., M. P., G. P. VDH, P., VKP. etc., do not refer to the basement or socle of the temple. Words like Jagati, Adhisthana occur frequently in these works, but there they are used in the sense of the basement of the temple in the general sense of a base and not in the specific sense of basement in particular.
Sm. Su. has dealt with •Jagatis' in two Chapters (LXVIII, LXIX) but it is different from Pitha, the basement of the temple.
However, it imparts instructions about the basement or socle ( pitba ) and its mouldings like Vedikā or Vedibhandha 5 Antarapatra and Mekhalā. Further the Vedikā, the lower most portion of the Pitha is divided into the sub-mouldings like Kumbha, Masuraka, Kalsa, Antarapatra, Kapoti etc. 6 The proportional units of measurements prescribed to each member are precise in relation to the variety of the temple in which they are to be moulded; but they are not found representing the extant temples pre-Caulukyan as well as the Caulukyan temples of Gujarat.
But the Canonical works like APPR,7 KSR (MS)8 Dipā,9 PM.10 etc. have given full treatment of the basement of the temple under the head of Pitha.
4. Vide here Fig. 86. s. Sm. Su. LVII, 25-26. 6. Sm. Su. LVII, 61-67. 7. APPR. CXXIII, CXXIV.
8. KSR (MS) CINI.
9. Dipa IV. 10. PM. III.