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The shrine of the Śiva temple at Rajur (Buldana) is still deeper than that of the temple of Amaranātha, and similar to it is the temple at Chandol (Burgess-Cousens, op. cit., p. 15). In Rajputana, in the temple at Visalpur, near Deoli, of the year 1174 A.D. the Garbhagṛha is three and a half feet lower than the Maṇḍapam (Cunningham, ASI. Report VI). The Jyotirliṅga temple of Oṅkāra at Mandhata (Narmada ; Cousens, 'Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan', p. 13) and the temple of Boram Deo (near Chapri, Chattisgarh; ASI. vol. XVIII. p. 34) show also by the difference of floor levels of Garbhagṛha and Maṇḍapa, the secret (gupta) nature of their crypt and sanctuary, the Garbhagṛha.