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The Structural Temples of Gujarat In a flat ceiling the padmašilā is depicted in a full-bloom lotus carved in the centre in bas-relief. Similarly in the early examples of concentric ceilings (e. g. Khandosan, rt. angular temple ) it is depicted in full-bloomed lotus. But in latter examples a central peice is given a highly ornate form of pendant. The central tube hanging from padmašilā, lumās etc. is known as padmakes ara while the course of various flowers around the pedmakesara is termed as puspaka.
The Udita variety of ceiling is also termed as karotaka, It, too, has several orders. The popular orders in the karotaka of extant temples of Gujarat are sabhāmārga 132 ( depicted in temples of Munibawa at Than and Siva temple at Mul Madhavpur ), Sabhāmandāraka (in all the five Jain temples at Kumbharja ) 183 and Sabhāpadmamandāraka (depicted in Tejapala's temple at Abu).194
Injunctions pertaining to the construction of the Kakṣāsapa are imparted by APPR.136 as well as by PM.136 The descriptions given are quite fitting to the existing illustrations found in the examples of Gujarat.
132. CTG. figs. 57,59. 133. lbid. figs. 62-65, 68,79. 134 The ceiling in Maipuri Masjid at Somanātha is of this order (CTG. fig. 88; here fig. 195). 135. APPR. CLXXXIV. s ff. 136. PM. VII, 9-13.
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