2.16. Temples at Punrano gadha

The platform of the ancient temple, here, is 2 meters high, 48 long and 14 meters wide. The temple, which is 16-5 long & 6-6 meters wide, is situated nearly in the middle, and the four corners of the platform had four small temples, now in ruins... There was a third in the middle of the two back temples with pabasana having seats for three idols. There was a porch at the entrance near the threshold, now lying in ruins. Between this and the porch in front of the temple is an Agnikunda for sacrifice on special days. The porch in the front is 8 meters long and 5-4 meters wide, with 16 pilasters and 8 square pillars, forming two aisles. The height of the pillar is 3-6 ms. and width 0.5 meters. In the brackets are figures of men and lions. balconies. The shrine is There is a door frame The dome has fallen down, but an upperfloor with rosettes in the middle of the ceiling, and creepers with leaves in the cornice is entire. There are three three 3 meters square with a linga 0.5 meters high. pradaksina about the shrine. Above the lintel of the are large figures of men in the attitude of playing music. The upper part of the shrine is partly fallen, and the stones have been re-arranged. The temple faces west. Its height must have been 17-5 ms. 56/1 56. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada pp. 212-213, Plts LXII, LXIII, Figs. 1, 2. & 3. Also Kacchanum Sanskriti Darshana pp. 137-147 and pl. on p. 144. 56/1. D. H. Khakhar: ASWI. Report on the Architectural & Archaeological Remains of the Province of Kaccha (1879); Vide also Kacchanum Sanskriti Darshana pp. 153-55. Here Figs. 74, 75.