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A Survey of the Structural Temples of Pre-Caulukyan Times 93
The Sun temple at Kalasar ( Dist. Bhavnagar) was first noted by Shri Ravisanker Raval?? in the year 1947–48. It consists of a garbhagsiba measuring 4.3x2.6 ms. and a rectangular Mandapa before the shrine measuring 2.7x3 ms. The wall of the temple is plain and is .7 ms in thickness. The upper part of the shirine is closed by stone slabs which rise into śikhara by supplying slabs in Corbel style. No morter is used for fixing the stones. The śikhara shows close affinity with that of the temples at Sutrapada, Visavada and Bileśvara.
The Sun temple at Pasthar (Dist. Junagadh ) is roofed with long slabs of stones. The Pradaksiņā has had a slanting roof, and two small windows at the back. One pillar of the mandapa remains standing, with four-armed figures on the barckets. Gaņeśa is carved on the lintel of the door, and a Sürya inside is represented much as Vişņu with only two hands.78
There is a group of ruined temples North of Navalakha Temple at Ghumali* (Dist. Junagadh). One of it measures 2.5 ms. square inside and the walls are 0.8 ms. thick. Nothing is remained of the shrine, but the jambs and lintel of the door and three or four pillars and the mode of closing the spire speak of its old antiquity. The other shrine noteworthy of this group is a ruined Jain temple of which few pillars of mandapa and the three of the small cells that surrounded it survive. The bracket capitals and the elaborately carved doors of little shrines of the circumambulatory or court are interesting. 9
Scattered about all over the site of Ghumali are fragments of temples and some of them are noteworthy.
77. The details, and sketches of the temple, ground plan and photographs are given by Shri Raval in JGRS. Vol. Xl. No. 2 pp. 81-88. Here Fig. 12. 78. AKK. p. 186. * Ghumali lies 6.4 Kms. South of Bhanwar, in the North-Eastern end of the Barada Hills. 79. AKK. p. 181, plts. XLV; XLVI. Fig. 1.
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