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(i) Pre-Caulukyan temples
Balej*
The village contains a small templel dedicated to the Sun. It faces east. It consists of a square garbhagriha (2.2 x 22 ms.) with a pradaksiņā 0.8 m. wide and a rectangular maņdapa in front of it measuring 5.6 x 22 ms. The maņdapa has four pilasters two attached to the wall of the garbhagļiha and the other two to the opposite wall of the garbhagriha. The pradaksiņā has a sloped roof. There is a half opened rectangular porch in front of the maņdapa measuring 5.6 x 2.4 ms. supported by pilasters six of which are extant. The maņdapa and porch have flat roof.
The Sikhara or spire over the garbhagļiha is typical pre-Caulukyan, the Caitya ornament being carved in high relief. The extant spire has four tiers, out of which the lower three contain a series of Caitya-arch ornaments decreasing in number in the ascending order of the tiers.
In front of the Sun temple there is a toraņaa later addition, probably of the Caulukyan period (see here fig. 213).3 Bhanasar
The group at Bhanasar consists of about nine temples. Five among them are noteworthy. In the centre there is a Kunda also. At present nearly all the temples are dedicated to Śiva but originally many of them seem to be Sun temples.
* 32 Kms. South of Porbandar. 1. Here Fig. 6. 2. Vide Sec. III Ch. 16 above. Here Fig. 214/1. 3. The site abounds in several other temples probably of late period. On the north there is a temple dedicated to Ganapati; opposite to it, is a Siva temple. $ 32 Kms. South of Porbandar.
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