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The Main Source or Sources of Canonicial Principles are available even to-day for building new restoring old ones. 4
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It will be interesting to note that mostly they follow the APPR. and the PM. which is based on it. Even the temples of the post-Caulukyan period, though lacking in the skill and grandeur of the monuments of the Caulukyan period, seem to follow the same traditions given in the APPR. It is very difficult to determine the exact relations between techinques in practice and canons in theory but in this instance the probable relations discerned between them in the old extant temples of Gujarat, especially of the pre-Caulukyan and Caulukyan period leave an impression that the works like Sm. Su. and APPR. probably present the architectural traditions evolved during the specific periods that preceeded the times of their composition.
4. The old Jain temples on Abu, Girnar, Satrunjaya and other places are not infrequently restored. The Vimala and Tajapala temples etc. at Abu for instance are at present being restored by Shri Amritlal Sompura and his assistance. On the basis of old works some recent works on architecture are also contributed by Sompuras. For examples (i) Bșhadšilpa Pt. 1 (1931), II (1934), III (1936), by Jaganath Ambaram. II. Silparatnākara (1939) by Shri N. M. Sompura, III. Dipārņava (1960) by Shri P. O. Sompura.
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