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The Structural Temples of Gujarat There was an old temple of Sun at Sonagadh (Dist. Surendranagar) probably built during this century but it has been pulled down, and a modern shrine is raised on the site 23 Srinagar# (Dist. Junagadh)
It was the capital of Jeth was, before they shifted to Ghumali. There is an old temple, still in use dedicated to Siva but tradition says it was once a sürya temple. 24
Mul-Madhavapur* (Dist. Junagadh ).
The inscription (?), found in the temple of Madhavarai in Mul-Madhavpur, supplies the information about the (extinct) temple of Balarama and Revati along the coast of Revatikunda revered as Gayākuņda. The said temple was restored by one Kurapāla (or Kumarapāla ).25
Only a few lowermost courses of the sanctum are old. The rest of the temple is newly built and does not retain the original plan. (SMTK. pl. XCI). A few sculptures-especially the ceiling of the porch, depicting the Nāgadamana scene and that of maņdapa which are master peices associate the temple to its early form.
23. MADTD. p. 6.
* At a short distance from Porbandar. 24. The Jethwās were at first, established at Srinagar, not far from Porbandar; Subsequently they built and fortified Ghumali in the Barada hills where the ruins of the finest of old temples are found, they moved to Ranpur about 1313 (A. D.) after Ghumali had been conquerred and destroyed by the Jādejās, under Jam Bamanioji from Kaccha; and then in 1574, to Chāyyā, 2.4 Kms. east of Porbandar. Jethwā bards relate that the fourth ruler of Ghumali built the temple of Sun at Srinagar in Saurastra. (SMTK. pp. 2–3). it at 1.6 Kms. distance to E. of Madhavapur near Porbander. 25. IK. Lascr. no. 73 pp. 605-606.
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