History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c46.85

v2.c46.85

Like the Sūrya Deul at Konarak, so much has been written on the Liṅgarāja, commonly known as the Great Temple of Bhuvanesvara, that it is difficult to determine how much of it should be left unsaid at the beginning of the 20th century. There cannot be any doubt about the fact that amateur writers like the late Mr. Mano Mohan Ganguly were wrong in assigning it to the 9th century and that Coomarswamy and Chanda are substantially correct in placing it in the 10th¹; The third type of mediaeval Orissan temples is a fixed type which underwent very few changes in subsequent centuries. The change was mainly in the contour of the *Śikhara* and the addition of two other *Maṇḍapas*. The *Vimāna* was planned like the two earlier types by intersecting rectangles which produced a number of facets on all four faces. The *Jagamohana* is also oblong, longer but less broad than the *Vimāna*,¹ except in certain cases, where it is a square.²