Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s4: Tahākāri
Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s4
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Tahākāri
c10.s4.1
The temple of Bhavānī or Devī at Tahākāri, ten miles to the north-west of Akolā, is a three-shrined temple, in the principal shrine of which is an image of Mahālakṣmī, whilst above the door is a *devī*. There are images in the three principal niches and the recesses around the shrine. The *śikharas* over the shrines, which are very dilapidated, are built of brick like that of the temple at Kokamthān. The rest of the building, below the cornice, is of stone. Plates LXXI and (LXXIII—LXXV.)
c10.s4.2
The pillars, within the temple, are rather plain. In the central *maṇḍapa* which is common to all three shrines, there are twelve pillars in the square, namely, four principal corner ones and eight smaller, introduced as intermediate supports between them, as the span of beam is rather long between the corner pillars.
c10.s4.3
The ceiling of the *maṇḍapa* is particularly fine, it being most elaborately chiselled. It is almost hemispherical, and rises in the usual manner by concentric rings of cusped mouldings to the central pendant. The ceiling of the porch is also good. There are eight dancing bracket figures in the former, and there were six in the latter but two have disappeared.
c10.s4.4
There is an old Sanskrit inscription of *Śaka* 1050 (A. D. 1128) on a pillar of the *maṇḍapa* of a small ruined shrine between this temple and the river.