1. The Solanki's Stone Song

In Thar's vast, golden hold,
A Solanki story, in sandstone told.
Five temples stand, where time has pressed,
But Someshvara stands, the best-preserved.

Its shikhara fallen, its roof is bare,
But on each column, art beyond compare.
In Māru-Gurjara style, a sacred dream,
Where gods and beasts dance in the sun's hot gleam.

Across the way, where three Shivas reside,
Only sanctuaries, with time, abide.
And Vishnu's mandapa, a columned age,
The sole survivor of a bygone page.

A stone-song silenced, yet the lines persist,
By desert winds and history kissed.

2. Echoes in the Stone

Five ruined prayers in the desert sun,
A Solanki dynasty, undone.
The Someshvara, though scarred and maimed,
By Percy Brown's "Solanki mode" was named.

Its mandapa columns, an octagon,
Where carved stone life is still cast on.
The Vishnu temple, older, stands so stark,
A sentinel of columns in the park.

A stepwell waits, with silence deep,
Guarding the secrets that the ruins keep.
Not just a ruin, but a frozen age,
On Rajasthan's historical stage.