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The Accessories of the Temple-Complex
451 of the pediment are carved figures of deities and semi-divine beings like Gāndharvas. etc., the figure of the central deity being generally indicative of the main deity to whom the temple is dedicated. Just below the entablature is carved another arch, the terminals of which rest upon in the lower capitals of the pillars. It springs from the capitals either directly or through the figures of elephant mouths or makera mouths projected inside.
All its components-bases, shafts, capitals and architraves etc. follow the scheme employed in temple design. The spreading base, figured shaft, bracket capital and tabarnacled superstructure being of much the same order. The base of the its pillars show the same conventional arrangement of mouldings of the pītha of the temple, viz. Grāsapatti, Gajathara, Aśvathara and Narathara, Similarly the bas-reliefed deities, niche enshrined demi gods etc. in the shafts of pillars invariably reveal an identity with those of the mandovara. All the components of the toraņa are generally carved profusely.
The surviving Kirtitoranas in Gujarat are at Modhera (superstructure and the capitals of the pillars are extinct)? Siddhapur (Rudra Mahālaya ), 3 Vadanagar, 4 Kapadvanj, 5 Delmal, 6 Piludra,? Valam 8 Balej, 9 Shamalaji (Hariscandrani cori) 10 Ghunali ( now at Rajkot ), Āstika Pancāyatana Kanyātā Mahadeva ( Dist. Sabarkantha )11 etc.
2. AANG. Plt. VII, 3. AANG. Plt. XLIV, also Here Fig. 214/c. 4 AANG. Plt. LVII, LIX, also Here figs. 214/f-214 k. 5. ASWI, VIII, Plt. LXXXII. 6. AANG. Plt. LXV. 7. Here Figs. 214/c-214/d. 8. Here Fig. 214/m. 9. Here Fig. 214/1. 10. SSR. cover page, also Fig. 20 1 p. 34. Here Fig. 214/a. 11. Nutan Gujarat dated 27-5-62 also Appendix ‘A’ here. A fagmentary beautiful arch preserved in the Museum at Prabhas indicates that there was a highly sculptured and ornamental toraņa, in
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