| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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OBJECTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS AND A
SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS |
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The
structure built by Kumarapala in A.D. 1169 with all later additions and reconstructions,
forms the ruins of the popularly called old Somanatha temple. Phase III is, therefore, a
composite phase representing the developments of nearly 550 years.5 It is different alike
in design and plan from the two temples referred to above. Notable features of this temple
are (a) the basement moulding or the mahapitha; (b) the axial length being diagonal
of both the garbhagriha and the mandapa; (c) the enlarged mandapa and the pradakshina
marga with opening on the south and north and also on the west in case of the latter; (d)
the design of the pillars and the octagonal arrangement of the nave;
5 For an authenticated description of the temple,
see Henry Cousens, op. cit., pp. 11-33. |
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