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The Structural Temples of Gujarat Odadar*
The site on the east of the village Odadar, known as Gorakhanath, abounds in many small temples the chief among them are :
1. The temple, probably dedicated to some Vaisnava god, facing west is in Caulukyan style.
2. Facing east are the Gorakha temple, the Śiva temple and the temple dedicated to Anjali. All these are late erections but the temple of Gorakha from its extant form seems to be originally a temple dedicated to the Sun. It is repaired to such an extent that it is difficult to trace out its original form. It has a garbhagļiha and a maņdapa.
3. There is another temple in the line of the above, south to the Anjali temple. It also faces east. The icons of Sūrya and his consort are preserved in the garbhagņiba, It, only consists of a square garbhagļiha. The spire over it is damaged to such an extent that it is not possible to judge about its original form.
4. On the east of the group, facing west, there is a siva temple, perhaps of the same age as that of the Sun temple. In plan it is a square shrine with a pre-Caulukyan superstructure. The plain walls of the shrine have heavy moulded cornice at the top from which the horizontal tiers of the spire rise. There are three tiers of diminishing sizes superimposing one over the other. The apex is adorned with a heavy āmalaka. Here we have no caitya-arch ornaments adorning the tires of the spire.19 Pasanyada1 (1) The sun temple
It faces east. It has a square (1.9 x 1.9 ms.) garbhagriha and an attached rectangular maņdapa (nearly 3.7 * 2.5 ms.) having * 9.6 Kms. south of Porbander. 19. Here Fig. 36. I 224 Kms. S. E. of Prabhaspatan.
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