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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Appendix A Boricha*
There is a Sun temple? comprising only a square garbhagriha and a superstructure over it. It has plain walls with a low reliefed round edged cornice at the top from which the horizontal tiers, having round edged pațți at the surface and a torus at the lower portion with a recess between the patti and the torus, each tier successively diminishing in size till the apex of the spire is attained. There are four such tiers. The upper most has a Caitya-arch ornament at the centre, while the rest are simple. The apex is crowned with a heavy āmalaka. The finial is lost.
Dhrasanvelt
The Kālikāmātā temple8 has no deity in the garbhagļiha. It has a square garbhagļiha (2.1x2.1 ms.) with 1 m. wide pradakṣiṇāpatha. The external as well as internal walls of the garbhagriha measure nearly 0.6 m. in thickness. Thus externally the garbhagļiha' measures 6.1 ms. The temple faces east.
The attached maņdapa is almost square measuring 6x 5.8 ms. with four tall square pillars supporting the central roof. The maņdapa externally measures 6.8x68 ms. The walls of the mandapa are shorter in height than the pillars, hence the surrounding space between the pillars and the walls and the pradaksiņāpatha are covered with sloped roof.
The high central portion i. e. the nave supported by four pillars may have had the stepped-out pyramidal superstructure. During conservation by the Archaeological department of Government, it is covered with flat slabs. Similarly the portion surviving as antarāla before garbhagriha possibly also had a cylendrical gable-roofed superstructure with Caitya-window
* Nearly 35 Kms. N. E. of Porbandar. 7. Here Fig. 14. I 9.6 kms. S. E. of Dwarka. 8. Here Fig. 27.