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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The Component Parts of the Full-Fledged Temple
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Nagari and Deva-nagari, as their scripts. The country known as q was the original home of these races. They, agreeably to the exegencies of the times, spread over at different times in history and in different batches small or great into Gujarat, Malva, Lāta and आनर्त on the South and मगध, बंग etc. on the east. Similarly, the middle zone known as a included in its boundaries them, a etc. The people of this zone speak agy and the last and the Southern most division includes the Tamil speaking races. Kerala forms a part of this. The Dravidian territory includes the northern half of Ceylon and extends northward up to an irregular line drawn from a point on the Arabian Sea about 1000 miles south of Goa along the Western Ghata as far as Kolhapur, then north east through Hydrabad and further east words to the Bay of Bengal. The old or Telugu country covers about 8000 Sq. miles and is bounded on the east by the Bay of Bengal, on the north by the River Godavari and on the South by the Krsna (Preface of Dr. Burnett, Catlogue or Telugu works.)13
All the available texts are agreed on the point that the Nagara style was prevalent in the region between the Himalays and Vindhyas (Nagarasya Smrito deśaḥ Himavad-Vindhyamadhyagaḥ-Iśāngurudevapaddhati, Silparatna etc.. Similar statement is also seen in Kasyapaśilpa and Kamikāgama) while Aparajitapṛaccha confines the Nagari (Nagara) style to Madhyadeśa and further mentions Lati and Vairāti (evidently the styles prevailed in Lata and Virața (Varada) regions) as separate styles (Nagari Madhyadeśa tu Lați Lāta prakirtitaAPPR.) These Lati and Vairāti may be considered as remifications of the Nagara style.
But, it is noteworthy that these styles are not exclusively confined to any region or race as all the styles are found more or less in all parts of the country. Nearly all the texts or canons
13. APPR. Int. p. XXXIII