Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c10.s8.2

c10.s8.2

Some very good wood-carving decorates the façades of two houses at Śrīgunda, of the style, though not so old, as that found in such abundance in many of the old towns of North Gujarāt.¹ It is very similar to that upon some of the old Marāthā palaces in the city of Poona, and that which was brought from Kittur, in the Dhārwār District, when the Desāī’s palace was demolished in the insurrection of 1824, of which a beautifully carved doorway was preserved in the local Magistrate’s office at Hubli. In plate LXXXVI the brackets remind one much of those, in stone, under the cornices of the old mosques and tombs at Bijāpur. The application of the decoration on the door frames is particularly well carried out. The blank square in the middle of the lower lintel probably had a painted picture of Ganapati or some other favourite deity.