History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c46.78

v2.c46.78

There are a number of temples, the names of which vary according the whims of the local priests, in front of the main gate of the Liṅgarāja, behind the Liṅgarāja along the road from that temple to the railway crossing and from Bhuvaneśvara Railway station to the Vaitāl Deul. None of these ever possessed a *Jagamohana*. In some of these there is a projecting eave or *Antarāla* over the door of the temple. The Bhuvaneśvara temples without *Jagamohana* are mostly in a dilapidated condition and, in comparison with them, two of the three temples at Baudh are in a fair state of preservation. The decorative motifs and the plastic art of the three temples at Baudh are certainly superior to and older than the great Liṅgarāja-Ananta-Vāsudeva group. If the Liṅgarāja is to be placed any where in the 10th century A. D., then the Baudh temples must be placed in the middle of the 9th century. Computing at this rate, the temple of Chandraśekhara should be dated about 900 A. D., and such temples of Bhuvaneśvara as possess a Śikhara of the type of the Liṅgarāja or Ananta-Vāsudeva should be placed after the middle of 9th and before that of the 10th century A. D.