महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha. Kathdāwan, Malak-Khera and Bhimān.¹ The temple of Eklingji is of an unusual design having a double storied porch and a double storied sanctuary, the former covered by a flat pyramidal roof composed of many hundred circular knobs, the latter roofed by a lofty tower of more than ordinary elaboration. “It would be difficult to convey a just idea of a temple so complicated in its details. It is of the form commonly styled pagoda, and, like all the ancient temples of Siva, its sikhara, or pinnacle, is pyramidal. The various orders of Hindu sacred architecture are distinguished by the form of the sikhara, which is the portion springing from and surrounding the perpendicular walls of the body of the temple. The sikhara of those of Siva is invari- ably pyramidal, and its sides vary with the base, whether square or oblong. The apex is crowned with an ornamental figure, as a sphynx, an urn, a ball, or a lion, which is ¹ Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Vol. I, p. 515. The shrine of Eklingji is endowed with twenty-four large villages from the fisc, besides parcels of land from the chieftains. 158