The Structural Temples of Gujarat

by Kantilal F. Sompura | 1968 | 163,360 words

This essay studies the Structural Temples of Gujarat (Up to 1600 A.D.)....

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118 The Structural Temples of Gujarat *Kokra or Kakra (Kaccha): has two ruined old temples. both of them Saiva. In the most easterly one there is a fine door to the shrine...It is evidently old, of hard, compact stone, and has a Caitya window ornament over each jamb and the different comaprtments of the lintel. On the lintel Siva is carved in the centre, Brahma on the left, and Visnu on the right, in a very spirited style, with Kirtimukhas between. Some well sculptured pillars also lie about.57

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