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Architecture of a Hindu temple (Nagara style). These core elements are evidenced in the oldest surviving 5th–6th century CE temples. Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many different styles, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary Murti or ...
Design of a Vishnu Temple belonging to the Nagara Style, drawn in 1915 AD.. Nagara Style or Nagara architectural style is a Hindu style of temple architecture, which is popular in Northern, Western and Eastern India (except the Bengal region [1]), especially in the regions around Malwa, Rajputana and Kalinga. [2]
The temple architecture shows many of the key architectural elements of Hindu Nagara style temple. The temple consists of an entrance porch, an open hall or mandapa and it faces the east. The roof of the mandapa is supported by 16 columns with 12 forming a square, remaining flanking the north and south sides.
Adam Hardy (1995) Indian Temple Architecture: Form and Transformation : the Karṇāṭa Drāviḍa Tradition, 7th to 13th Centuries, Abhinav Publications, p. 432 Retrieved on 3 May 2012. ISBN: 978-81-7017-312-0. File:1910 sketch of plan, Rajarani Temple, Bhubaneswar Odisha.jpg
The temple is an example of post-Maitraka and early Nagara phase of Māru-Gurjara architecture. [2] It is about 9 m high on a large pitha (platform). [1] [2] The grass-patti (band of grass moulding) is first seen here which continued in later architecture of the style. [1] [2] The shikhara has an amalaka and kalasha mouldings.
The architecture of a Hindu temple in Sunak, Gujarat. Hindu architecture is the traditional system of Indian architecture for structures such as temples, monasteries, statues, homes, market places, gardens and town planning as described in Hindu texts.
The north India Nagara style of temple designs often deploy fractal-theme, where smaller parts of the temple are themselves images or geometric re-arrangement of the large temple, a concept that later inspired French and Russian architecture such as the matryoshka principle.
Vesara is a hybrid form of Indian temple architecture that combines Dravidian Southern Indian site layouts with shape details characteristic of the Nagara style of North India. This fusion style likely originated in the historic architecture schools of the Dharwad region.