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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Decorative Sculptures and Their Structural Functions
465 (2) Figures of Lakşmīnārāyaṇa are found at Kadvar16 and Kasara, 17 those of Trilokyamohana at Sandera, 18 of Varāha at Kasara19 and Valam, Trivikrama at Modhera 90 and Piludra and Antaśāyina (Seșa-Śāyīna ) at Modhera.21 A figure of Vişņu is also found at Modhera 22 and of Nộisinha and Rāmā at Kadvar. The figures of ten incarnations of Visņu are found on the door-frames of Śitala and Amthora mātā temple at Vadnagar and of all the twenty-four forms of Visņu inside the garbhawall of the garbhagriha of Ranchhodji temple at Valam. A figure of Vaisnava goddess Lakşmi is also illustrated at Modhera.
(3) The figures of Brahmā are found on the temples at Kadvar, Modhera, Kasara, Delmal etc. They are often placed in one of the niches in large temples.
(4) The earliest known figure of Sürya stands on the panel of the door frame at Kadvar, first from right.33 The sun temple at Modhera contains a number of figures of Sūrya in the niches of the garbha-walls falling into circumambulatory as well as in external walls of the temple. Some of the figures of Sūrya are flanked by his consorts.24 With Sūrya are also found Navagrahas, usually on a door-frame of the shrine, on the entrance door-way and sometimes on the toraņa of Sūrya image. They are found on the panel over shrine doors of the temples at Somanath (extinct) 95, Than,26 Roda Temple VI27, Amthora at Vadnagar, Khandosana ( right angular ), Lovarali etc.
16 Ibid. Plt. XXXV. 17. AANG. Plts. XC-XCI 18. AG. Fig. 64. 19. ANNG. Plt. XC-XCI. 20. AANG. Plt. LVI, fig. 1. 21. Ibid, plt. LVI. Fig. 3. 22. Ibid. plt. (LVII. 23. SMTK. plts. XXXII, & XXXIV. 24. AANG. plt. LVI, figs. 5,6 25. SMTK. plt. XIV.
26. lbid. plt. XLIX. 27. SRR. p. 112.