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 (4) Short pillars over the porch-walls with vase, foliage and kirtimukha ornament. This last type resembles the 11th cent, pillars.2?
The pillar decoration of the mandapa of the Sun temple on Hiranya is different. It has an octagonal base; the shaft for about half its height is sixteen-sided, then becomes round, which is adorned with a row of projecting bansas (swans), string courses, and a band of kītrimukhas.2 8
Pillars of the Hatakesvar temple at Vadnagar.
The mouldings of the pillars follow those of the mandovara of the walls of a temple : first a complex pitha or base with three bhittas or plinth, the upper one carved with lozenge ornamentwhich on the comparision with pitha of the Modhera temple (AANG. Plt. XLIX) will be seen that they are identical, Secondly over this, the kumbha or sur-base has groups of figures added on the faces as in Sunak, Ruhavi, and Motab temples (AANG. Plts. LXXXI, LXXXIII, XCIII, and CI). The larger figures, in panels, above this correspond to the janghā; and beyond this the mouldings agree very closely with those of the pillars at Modhera. The double capitals are elegant feature and, with the lower brackets, form needful supports to those figures which the workmen were so fond of introducing both on the necks of pillars and in roofing of domes. The sur-capitals with their stilted shafts are close copies of the lower cap and neck of the pillar; and this portion of the column may be compared with the mouldings above the janghā on the walls of the temples at Ruhavi, Gorad, Motab, and the small temple at Delmal ( AANG. Plts. XCIII, CI, CIl & LXVIII). In the last will be seen the groups of figures above the cornice, corresponding to those over the lintel of the kirtimukha. The square blocks carved with figures, vertically above the pillars, again the analogous of similar ones 27. AG. pp. 111-112; AANG. Plt. LXXIX (1, 2, 3). 28. AG. p. 92 also plt. XXIX, Fig. 53.