Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c13.s7: Sākegāon
Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c13.s7
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Sākegāon
c13.s7.1
FIG. 15.—A broken image at Sātgāon.
c13.s7.2
Another temple of the same style and age as that at Sātgāon, and in an equally ruinous state, is that of Mahādeva at the village of Sākegāon, six miles west of Chikhli. It faces the east, and consists of a shrine, an antechamber and a hall, with a porch in front of the entrance on the east. It was surrounded by a heavily-built wall enclosing a courtyard, the entrance to which is on the north side. To the south of the main building is a small subsidiary temple facing the north, against which the surrounding wall abuts on either side, from which it is evident that the wall was built after the shrine. The masonry of the walls, and the pillars of the courtyard gateway, are of the same style and age as those of the temple at Mehkar, and therefore later than the temple itself. (Plate CX.)
c13.s7.3
The walls of the *mandapa* and shrine are quite free of images, save for those in two of the three large niches round the shrine, and are decorated with the usual basement mouldings and bands of geometric ornament. The back wall of the shrine, or rather its outer casing, has fallen, carrying with it a great part of the spire on that side. The back niche has gone with it. In the niche on the south side is an image of Nateśa, or the *tāṇḍava* of Śiva, and in that on the north side is an image of Mahākālī. The front of the tower is decorated with the trifoliated *chaitya* arch, and, under it, are the images of the *tāṇḍava* and of Śiva and Pārvatī, while upon the sides of the same are those of Bhairava, Mahiśāsura-mardanī and Gaṇapati. Within the shrine is the *liṅga*.
c13.s7.4
In the small temple, on the south side of the main building, against the back wall, is a seat for an image, but it is now absent, and it is not known to what deity the shrine was dedicated.