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
497 superstructure contains four tiers, each containing a series of the aforesaid ornament. The apex is surmounted with a heavy āmalaka and a finial.
Besides, this temple there is still another one probably of the same design and plan, but it is repaired to such an extent that it is difficult to trace out its original form. Navidhrevad*
The Kālikāmātā temple18 at Navidhrevad faces east. The square garbhagriha measures 3.1 x3.1 ms. The image stands on a platform adjoining the back wall. The door of the shrine is simple. The attached maņdapa is larger in size. It measures 6.6x7.6 ms. The roof of the maņdapa has been parished leaving no indication of the existence of central pillars. The walls of the maņdapa have four extant pillars, others being either destroyed or plastered with walls. The door of the maņdapa is 1.3 meter wide. The wall on the north as well as that on the south contains a wide window with dwarf pillars projecting externally. These windows have chajjas (eaves) with big caitya-arches over them.
In front of the maņdapa there is a porch in ruinous condition. It contains ten extant pillars in three rows and a portion of kaksāsana on the left. The central portion of the porch measures 3.2 x 1.8 ms. The pillars are simple but heavy with square base of 0.5 x 0.5 m. Neither mandapa nor porch has superstructure over it.
The superstructure of the garbhagriha is square at the base having five horizontal tiers of diminishing size, ultimately terminating into an apex. Each tier is adorned with a miniature replica of the spire at the corners and a series of caitya-arches between them. The spire, thus, closely resembles to that of a Siva shrine at Bilesvar. It is crowned with a cogged amalaka and a finjal. * Nearly 32 kms. S. E. of Dwarka. 18. Here Figs. 28, 29.