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DEO SOMNATH TEMPLE
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This grand temple of Shiva was built in 12th century AD by the local Rajput rulers in Malva style of temple architecture.This is enclosed by a prakara. Built of huge slabs of micaceous schist and gneiss, the three-storeyed temple has imposing appearance. Its sanctum, which is sunk 2.7 m below the ground level, has a false ceiling over which rises the sikhara with prominent ratha projections. It has a narrow antarala preceded by   sabhamandapa with a samvarana roof and three entrance porches. There are two inscriptions in the temple, one by Maharawal Sesmal (AD 1586-1606) and the other by Maharawal Gopinath (AD 1424-47).
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Notification No. Act No. LXXI  of 1951 dated 28.11.1951
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Ownership Status Government 
Topographical Features Situated on the bank of Som river.
1 Chandramani Singh (ed.), Protected Monuments of Rajasthan (Jaipur 2002);
2 K.K. Sehgal (ed.), Rajasthan District Gazetteers, Dungarpur (Jaipur 1974); and
3 K.V. Soundara Rajan, Indian Temple Styles (New Delhi 1972).
Locality Tehsil District State
Deo Somnath  Dungarpur Dungarpur Rajasthan