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Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period
109 somewhat differently having three porches to the Maņdapa 34 The style of the pillars is much like the others already described, and, as at Sunak, we have the caitya-window ornament on the basement of the screen wall. The basement or pitha itself is less in height in proportion as the temple itself is smaller than at Sunak, and accordingly the two upper mouldings, usually filled with elephants and human figures, are both omitted to reduce the height.
The domical roof of the hall has been decorated in the usual way, but instead of a central pendant ornament it has a flat rosette or lotus, and there are 16 brackets round the dome to support as many dancing figures and musicians. 35
At Gorad* there is a small old temple, dedicated to Someśvara Mahadeva. The shrine has a sanctum and a porch only. The basement and maņdovara are decorated with usual courses of mouldings. The Sikhara and the roof of the porch are partly ruined. The dwarf pillars of the porch are of usual vase-andfoliage (Ghatapallava ) type and the ceiling is of the Samatala type showing compartments adorned with floral motif. Part of the basement is now buried below the present ground level; the porch appears to have been rebuilt, and is not bounded with the masonary of the shrine and prominent moundlings of its base are 0.2 m. below the corresponding ones of the shrire. It faces east.36
The shrine in the tank of village Chaubari@37 was probably Vaişņava as image of Śeșaśaya was found lying within it, and 34. AANG. Plts. XII; XCVI Fig. 3; Here Fig. 233. 35. AANG. pp. 110-111.
Shri M. A. Dhaky places this temple in the reign of Kumārajāla ( 1144-77 A. D.) (CSTG. p. 57) *4. 8 kms. N. E. of Dhinoj. (Dist. Mehsana ). 36. AANG. p. 111; Pit. C11. Cill. Here Fig. 61. @ 6.4 kms to N. E. of Anandapur (Dist. Surendranagar ). 37. SMTK. P, 63 plt LXXIJ.
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