| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
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OBJECTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS AND A
SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS |
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plinth of this temple was all plain save the foliate scroll on the medial moulding. Some
portions of the temple, notably the entrance steps, the mandapa floor and the brahmashila
show signs of deliberate break ages which could, on some plausibility, be attributed to
Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. At places one could still notice black spots, obviously charred,
indicative of in tense firing to which the temple was subjected by the Sultan. The
interstices of the floor stones in the mandapa were found to contain molten lead filling.
The whole of the temple was built of a distinctive thin-grained reddish sandstone. |
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