2.19. Temples built during the reign of king Camunda and Bhima I

Merutunga ascribes the construction of the Saiva temples of Candanatha and Cacinesvara (or Vacidesvara) to king Camunda (997-1010 A. D. )59. His son Durlabha (1010-1022 A. D.) built the temple of Mandanasankara for the spiritual welfare of his deceased brother Vallabha and also constructed a reserviour called Duralabhasara at Anhilpura 60, which according to some scholars was subsequently elaborated into the Sahasralinga lake. *About 16 Kms. South to Kanthakot in Kaccha. 57. Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 216. 58. Bombay Gazetter Vol. V. p. 225; also Kacchanum Sanskriti Darshana p. 109 figs. on pp. 110-111 and 119. 58.1. This reminds us the instruction of Visnudharamottara regarding omission of Ketu (VDP. LXVII, 52 ). 59. Prabandha Cintamani Tawny, 29; Prabandha Cintamani Jinvijaya 20; Dvyashraya VII, 31; Indian Antiquary IV, 111. 60. Prabandha Cintamani Tawny, 29; Prabandha Cintamani Jinvijaya 20.

Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period 119 During the reign of Bhima I (A. D. 1024-1066) Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni attacked Gujarat in A. D. 1025-26, and sacked Somanatha Pattana and destroyed the celebrated temple, which according to its description by Muslim writers, seems to have been built of wood on a plinth of stone and bricks.61 The Prabhas Patan inscription of the time of Kumarapala records that the temple was built of stone by Bhima. 62 The reference seems to apply its reconstruction by Bhima I. The other two important temples constructed during his reign are the magnificent Sun temple at Modhera and the fine Jain temple at Abu. the latter being built by his renowned minister Vimala and known as Vimala Vasahika. 61. Albaruni (Sachau) II, 105, also Gujarat no Madhyakalma Rajputa Itihasa pp. 203-204. 62. Verse 15, Bhadrakali temple (Prabhas Patan) Stone inscription of the time of Kumarapala (BPSI, 186) This inscription is also known as Prasasti of Bhava Brihaspati. According to Shri Meter A. Dhaky, with the advent of the rule of Bhimadeva 1, the true Solanki (Caulukyan) style of temple architecture came to full blood. He has discussed at length some of the characteristic advancement in different mouldings of the temples to support this theory (The Chronology of Solanki Temples of Gujarat pp. 24-26). It is well-accepted that from the time of the construction of the Sun temple at Modhera and the Adinatha temple (Vimalvasahi) at Abu; the style of temple architecture of Gujarat entered into a new epoch. But Shri Dhaky's divisions into kingwise phases like Bhimadeva's phase, Karnadeva's phase, Siddharaja's phase, Kumarapala's phase, Early and late Vaghela's phase etc. are quite arbitary and do not throw proper light on the development and progress of the temple architecture nor do they give a real picture of the evolution of several mouldings as narrated by him in the beginning of each phase.