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A garbhagriha (Sanskrit: गर्भगृह, romanized: Garbhagṛha) is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, what may be called the "holy of holies" or "sanctum sanctorum". The term garbhagriha (literally, "womb chamber") comes from the Sanskrit words garbha for womb and griha for house.
A darshana literally means a 'glimpse' or 'view'. In a Hindu temple, the term refers to viewing the garbhagriha 'inner sanctum' of the temple, which hosts the murti 'image of a god'.
Garba is a form of Gujarati dance which originates from the state of Gujarat, India.The name is derived from the Sanskrit term Garbha. [1] Many traditional garbas are performed around a centrally lit lamp or a picture or statue of the Hindu goddess Durga.
Architecture of Khajuraho temples with the antarala between the shikhara and the mandapas. Antarala (Sanskrit: अन्तराल; lit. ' intermediate space ') is a small antechamber or foyer between the garbhagriha (shrine) and the mandapa, more typical of north Indian temples.
Above the garbhagriha is a tower-like shikhara, called the vimana in south India. This sanctum is surrounded by a closed or open path for pradakshina (also called parikrama , circumambulation) that is typically intricately carved with symbolic art depicting Hindu legends, themes of artha, dharma and kama as well as the statues of significant ...
A seven-storey vimana. Vimana is the structure over the garbhagriha or inner sanctum in the Hindu temples of South India and Odisha in East India. In typical temples of Odisha using the Kalinga style of architecture, the vimana is the tallest structure of the temple, as it is in the shikhara towers of temples in West and North India.
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 ...
A shikhara over the garbhagriha chamber where the presiding deity is enshrined is the most prominent and visible part of a Hindu temple of North India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In South India , the equivalent term is vimana ; unlike the shikhara , this refers to the whole building, including the sanctum beneath.