| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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OBJECTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS AND A
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followed the pattern of the preceding temple. Besides having the foliate scroll on the
medial moulding, its plinth on the upper half had three sculptured pieces on either face,
distributed equally into the entire length of the mandapa. The garbhagriha plinth is not
available. A noteworthy 11th century feature is the seemingly octagonal arrangement
of the mandapa pillars for the nave. There was no entrance to the mandapa from the north
or the south. In plan the garbhagriha and the mandapa of both these temples fitted into a
rectangle, a feature of the rather earlier temples.4
4 Percy Brown, Indian Architecture (Buddhist and
Hindu), (Taraporewala, Bombay, 1942), p. 143. |
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