Kasara, Gujarat

Besides its layers of different coloured stone, the building is of peculiar construction with a central porch, mandap, and three sides as well as the usual back shrine.

The original image of Vishnu in his four-handed, chaturbhuji, form, is said to have been carried away by the Emperor Alauddin Khalji (1295–1315).

According to local story it stands on the site of a temple built by Gandharvasen, the heaven-born father of Vikramaditya (56 B.C.

), who, in memory of having once borne the form of an ass, is said to have introduced in all his works an ornament in the likeness of an ass-hoof.

It is not peculiar to Gandharvasen' s works, being really the same as the ' Chaitya window ' ornament common in early Buddhist and Brahmanic buildings.