History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s3.78

c8.s3.78

The temple at Gop in Kāṭhiāwāḍ (fig. 191) is more or less unique, but evidently connected in some way with the Kāśmīrī school of architecture. The square tower which is now its conspicuous feature was once surrounded by a flat-roofed hall providing for *pradakṣiṇā* under cover, concealing half its height; it is surmounted by a double pent-roof of the Kāśmīrī type, and decorated with large *caitya*-niches containing figures of deities. The basement of the outer structure, decorated with a *gaṇa* frieze, still remains. The shrine is Brāhmaṇical, and dates about the end of the sixth century, and is thus early mediaeval rather than Gupta properly so-called³.