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the brick temple of Bhitargaon are of the sixth century; the stone temple of Gop, Kathiawar (5th–6th century) has a pyramidal superstructure and, in certain respects similar to it, is the four storeyed pyramidal superstructure of the temple at Visavada, though somewhat later (H. Cousens, ‘Somanātha and Other Temples, etc.’ ASI. vol. XLV, Pls. XLIII-XLIV, pp. 44-45). A carving on a lintel of the Gupta Age, at Sārnāth shows relief representations of related superstructure; (Coomaraswamy, ‘Early Indian Architecture’, ‘Eastern Art’, III. Fig. 59). The superstructure here is of the rectilinear type, consisting of superposed roof cornice mouldings. It is crowned by a very broad Āmalaka on which rested the finial (Fig. c, in Part VI). The stone built temple of Mahākūṭeśvar, near Bādami, erected in the third part of the 6th century is discussed in Part VI.