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The Structural Temples of Gujarat shrine is vastly superior to that of the later one. The carving is deep and crisp, the cornice projects more elegant; the pillars are well conceived and executed in the style of those at Modhera, Kasara & Sunak; and the upper ledge of the screen wall (or Kaksāsana ) is deeper and better proportioned than that of the new temple. In front of the temple are portions of two pillars once supported a kirtitoraņa, 21/1 There is also an old temple on the bank of the tank of the village.2 1/9
The old temple at Kasara or Kasra* has three shrines dedicated to śiva, Vişnu and Brhamā grouped round a central hall or maņdapa on its N. W. and South sides. 22 The front porch, that formed the entrance from the east side, has entirely disappeared, and the whole building which was properly covered with sculpture, has been badly battered and injured. Almost every figure on the walls have been defacted.
It is not of great size; the central Mandpa is only about 3.01 ms, square or 4 ms. to 4.1 ms. over the pillars that support its roof; and this is about the same as the Sunak temple, so that the arrangement of the pillars is exactly the same. Behind the two middle pillars in front of each shrine, and only 0.2 m. from them, is a second pair and beyond them the entrances into the shrines. These face east, north and south; and the door ways28 are all of one pattern, but the shrines belong to different divinities. On the central door, belonging to west cella the figures are all Saiva; those on the North one are Vaişņava; whilst those on the South belong to Brhamā these being the divinities of the Hindu Trimūrti or triod.
The original images have been taken out of the sancta; but one of them that of Visņu-lies outside, battered and broken 21/1. AANG. p. 90. 21/2. lbid plt. VIII. *About 22.14 Kms. to N-V from Patan. 22. AANG. p. 105-107 Plts. LXXX, Im; Pit, XI. Here Fig. 22. 23. AANG. Pit. XCII, 1-6.
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