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CLXXXVI
Kavyanusasana
" That still reinain, impress the beholder with admiration at the scale and grandeur of the conception.... So far as can now be made out, it covered an oblong of about 230 feet by 300 feet, in the centre of which stood the temple - two or three storeys in height, with a Maņdapa 50 feet square inside having porches on the east, north and south sides and the shrine on the west. In or round the court, were eleven other shrines to the Rudras. The court was perhaps surrounded by small cells after the manner of some of the Jaina temples, with the principal entrance on the east and a ghāt or flight of steps down to the Sarasvatī river on that side. Of this splendid temple only a few magnificent fragments remain, the four pillars of the north porch, and five of the east porch to the Maņdapaone being an engaged pillar inside the door, four pillars in the back of the Maņdapa, a beautiful torana or Kīrtistanbha - and one cell at the back of the court; also a number of pillars and doors of three other cells, possibly all in situation which have been turned into a mosque about 57 feet in length." *
We learn from the Upadesatarangiņi of Ratnamandira (cir. 15th cen. A. D.) that Sāliga of Deşalahara family repaired the temple-of Rudra Mahālaya and' again gave youth to the fame of Sri Jayasimhadeva.'
The P. C. tells us that this Rudramahākālaprāsāda was twenty – three hands in measurement. This means that the garbhagrba - or the inner hall in which the principal image was seated – was twentythree hands in height. The other parts of the temple must have
Burgess and Cousens Archeological Survey : Northern Gujarat. pp. 59-60. See also the plate facing p. 64.
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