Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c9.s2.1

c9.s2.1

Jhodgā is about seventy-five miles to the north-east of Nāsik on the borders of Khāndesh. At the foot of a small hill, to the west of the town, is a well-finished old temple of Mahādeva, which looks exceedingly well as it stands out in the open, without any surroundings, upon its high basement. It consists of a central hall with its porch and three shrines, the main *śikhara* being all but complete. The whole is richly wrought and decorated. The It has the appearance of a temple of the best period of Chālukyan work, that is, about the eleventh century, and is possibly older than that of Gondēśvara. There are some details it seems to have borrowed from the northern style, such as, for instance, the *kichaka* bracket above the capital of the pillars—the little squat figure in the act of supporting the beam. This is not found in Chālukyan work.¹