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The Structural Temples of Gujarat (1) A Vaisnava temple-the shrine remains, 1.8 ms. square
inside, with wall of 0.5 m. thick and a Pradaksiņā 0.9 m. wide round it. On the lintel of the shrine door is Ganesa, and on the frieze above is Vişņu seated with Garuda below his āsana or throne, a nimbus behind his head, and female figures at each side; to the left to Vişņu, in another compartment, is Brhamā, three faced, seated cross legged on two hansas or sacred geese, with two female attendants; and to the right is siva, three faced, with the bull Nandi below, and two females. All three have four arms each, and are about 0.4 m. high. In front of the shrine door two pillars of the maņdapa still remain, divided into three nearly equal lengths of 4, 8, & 16 sides, with bracket capitals of the
usual cruciform shape. (2) The Second temple, has a Mandapa with low
screen wall 0.5 m. thick. The shrine is 21 m. square inside, with walls 0.7-9 m. thick, surrounded by a pradaksiņā 1.1 ms. wide, the outer wall of the temple forming 5.4 x 9 ms. inside 6-4 x 10 m. outside, with four pillars in front of the shrine 0.8 m. square below, octagon above and having square bases. They have round capitals and brackets of grinning Kirtimukhas and four-faced figures. The walls are of plain ashlar, the stones neatly dressed and jointed. There has also been a porch, but it has fallen.
The Sikhara is much ruined, but has been carved with a sort of chaitya-window pattern, not deeply cut, and other mouldings usual in temples from the 8th century or earlier to the 10th or 11th century and
crowned with a larger flat āmalśılā 80 The group of temples at Son or Suvan Kansari ( Dist. Junagadh) consists of some 18 or 20 temples 80/1 ... None of them 80. AKK. p. 182. 80/a. Here Figs. 41. 42, 43.
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