Note 38 — INDEX
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This shows that the temple was a building of brick and wood. According to Alberuni (Sachau, II. 105) the temple was built about a hundred years before Mahmúd’s invasion. An inscription at Patan states that Bhímadeva I. (a.d. 1022–1072) rebuilt the Somanátha temple of stone. In Dr. Bhagvánlál’s opinion the first dynasty in Gujarát to make stone buildings were the Solaṅkis. Before them buildings and temples were of wood and brick. ↑