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The Kalikamata temple 18 at Navidhrevad faces east. The square garbhagriha measures 3.1*3.1 ms. The image stands on a platform adjoining the back wall. The door of the shrine is simple. The attached mandapa is larger in size. It measures 6路6*7路6 ms. The roof of the mandapa has been parished leaving no indication of the existence of central pillars. The walls of the mandapa have four extant pillars, others being either destroyed or plastered with walls. The door of the mandapa is 1.3 meter wide. The wall on the north as well as that on the south contains a wide window with dwarf pillars projecting externally. These windows have chajjas (eaves) with big caitya-arches over them. In front of the mandapa there is a porch in ruinous condition. It contains ten extant pillars in three rows and a portion of kaksasana on the left. The central portion of the porch measures 3.2 * 1.8 ms. The pillars are simple but heavy with square base of 0.5 * 0.5 m. Neither mandapa nor porch has superstructure over it. The superstructure of the garbhagriha is square at the base having five horizontal tiers of diminishing size, ultimately terminating into an apex. Each tier is adorned with a miniature replica of the spire at the corners and a series of caitya-arches between them. The spire, thus, closely resembles to that of a Siva shrine at Bilesvar. It is crowned with cogged amalaka and a finial. * Nearly 32 kms. S. E. of Dwarka. 18. Here Figs. 28, 29.