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Structural Temples after the end of the Caulukyan Period 233 as well as in some of neighbouring territories of Rajsthana. Saurastra, menifestedly, has preserved the temples falling into the first catagory i e. chādya prāsada; many of them were possibly erected also in North and central Gujarat, but they exit no longer. This does not mean that these temples were or are of inferior variety.
The Next controvertial point in the paper is that the tradition represented by the monuments built in Saurastra from the 6th century to the beginning of the 10th century was supplemented by the other powerful ornate and superior tradition from North Gujarat that fully penetrated in Saurastra in the 1st half of the 10th cent. But the temples cited by him as examples of the early architectural tradition of North Gujarat, hardly appear to represent a tradition different from that of Saurastra. In fact, these temples display but a further step in the gradual stages of transition from the Chadya prāsāda phase to the Sikharānvita prāsāda phase, which is distinctly represented by the numerous extant temples in Saurastra, 109 Thus the transitory stages are visible both in Saurastra and N. Gujarat as well. As observed in this work 110 the Chadya Prāsāda phase finds mention in Samarāngana Sutradhāra (composed in the early part of the Solanki period) while the Aparajita-praccha (written a century or two later) makes no reference to it.
While discussing the extant temples of Gujarat Shri Dhaky has broadly divided them into two divisions under (1) Early Nāgara phase and (II) Solanki period. The temples of the Early Nāgara phase are, then, subdivided by him into three groups.
(A) Formative; In this phase he places the temples at Roda. Lakroda and the old temple at Than as displaying the formative stage. But as we have noticed in this work111 the temple at Roda unambigously indicate simply a later stage in the 109. vide Sec. III ch. XIII, below cf. The superstructure of the temples at Sutrapada, Pasthar, Akhodar, Miyani, Roda etc. 110. Sec. III, ch. IV & XIII. 111. Vide ch. XIII.
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