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A Survey of the Structural Temples of Pre-Caulukyan times 95 is very large, but apparently of an earlier date than those described above, and perhaps dating from the 8th to 10th Cent. A. D.
The larger ones consists of a square shrine built near one end of an oblong court or mandapa, and the smaller ones of an outer room or porch and a cell. The maņdapas have fallen except that of three larger ones, shown in the background a little to the right of the middle of the view, of which a considerable portion is still entire. This appears to be a Vaishnava temple with four columns in the mandapa. From the pradaksinā a smaller door opens on the right or north side into a little room outside the encloser wall; and at the back and south sides there are small openings or windows into similar appartments. The roofs of the pradaksiņā and aisles in these temples have slanted downwards.
These shrines however, differ than most others in the way they are roofed; the Sikhara or spire being gradually contracted in dimensions inside, till it terminates in a square aperture of about a foot, covered by a single slab. In one of the larger temples, on the N. side of the group, there appears to have been two floors and above the second, the area is gradually contracted in this way. The shrine is 3.2 ms. square inside and the walls 1.2 ms. thick with a Pradaksiņā 2 ms. wide, having four windows one on each side and two behind.81
81. AKK P. 183-184, plt. XLVII. Here Fig. 49.
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