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CHAPTER X
THE GROUND PLAN OF THE PRADAKṢIṆĀ PATHA.
(i) The early examples in Gujarat.
Some temples are provided with a pradakṣinapatha¹ intended
for circumambulation (Pradakṣiṇ�) around the shrine. Generally
it is enclosed by an outerwall running parallel (at least in
its general out line if not in detail) to the wall of the
garbhagriha which forms the inner wall for the passage. In that
case it is covered either by a separate roof (flat or sloping)
or by the projections of the superstructure of the shrine. In a
few cases it is found left open (uncovered) and unenclosed,
The ground plan of the circumambulatory, as discerned
in the extant temples of Gujarat may be classified into the
following types, according to the plainness or otherwise of
its inner and outer sides.
(a) Plain on the inner as well as the outerside, the
delineation of the inner and the outer wall being plain.
(b) Externally plain, but containing specific recesses
and projections internally (corresponding to those of the
inner wall)
(c) Internally plain but containing specific recesses and
projections externally (corresponding to those of the outer wall).
(d) containing specific recesses and projections on its
inner as well as outer side (corresponding to those of the
inner and the outer wall ).
In a few examples the covered circumamublatory is further
surrounded by an open one. attached to the former either on
the same level or on a lower level.
1. Also known as Bhrama', 'Bhramani' or Bhamati.