TEMPLES OF THE SALT RANCE DETAILED ANALYSIS OF TT{EIR ARCHITECTURAL AND DECORATIVE DESICNS
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Date
2000
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Department of Archaeology
Abstract
The temples ol lhe Sall Range 3nd Kelir Kots (Khisor Ra.qe) ar6
ourneglected and ralher forgollen cullural heritago. Even in this phase ol
.elalive enlightenmenl, aldosl nothing h3s b.en dooe ror thei.
documenlalion and, r€lalively very liltte has been done lor lhen
conservalion and preservation. Consequently, most ol this architeclural
wearlh, certainry or much hlsloic value, has already in an advance slage
These temples, as a maller ol lacl, are nol olten releiied to in lhe
liteEture dealing with Soulh tuian archilecture and, il they are, then
misclassilied- Because ol lhet lrue rrches, domed roofs and use ot
morlar, lhey have generally been considered as resulting lrom posr
lslamic conlacls. Neve heless most of the authorilies quile lrequently
have rclerred lo lhese monumenls as parl or the Kaghmlr sch@l of
archilecture and broadly associaled lhem wilh the Hindu Shahi rulers of
lhe Punjab. Cunningham, Coomaraswany, Percy Arcwn'?. J.C Hade3and
Waliullah Kban refer to lhese temples as 6 bBnch ol Kashmir style of
lemple archileclurc. Stein, tollowing Cunnanghem, s(qgesls that lhe
general style ol lhese lemples in lheir f€alures of construclaon a.d
decoEtive derails shows close similadriss ro lhat oflhe temples or
Kashmirdaling lrcm lhe eighlh lo the tenlh centuries. Fersuson, however,
includes only the Malol temple in his chapter on Kashmiri for the rest of