| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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had a basal width of nearly 40 feet and rose. imposingly with a battered frontage
to aheight 20 feet. The top 6 feet and 6 inches of this wall were built at the instance of
Lord Curzon in the early decades of this century. The stones of this wall showed signs of
extensive exposure and weathering. Subsequent
repairs of the mandapa floor indicated the use of yellow stones which, because of their
being subjected to intense firing, had become red. One of these yellow floor-stones bears
an incomplete inscription in devanagari script dated Vikrama Samvata 1657, thereby
testifying to the use of the floor till that date. With a little bit of rehabilitation the
floor-level inside the mandapa remained the same until the year 1706 when the temple was
converted into a mosque and a one-foot thick layer of roughly-hewn stones was added to
conceal the earlier Hindu features notably at the garbhagriha door step. |
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