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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 ...
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.
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 temple is situated in the village of Narayanpal, about 4 kilometers east of the reputed Chitrakote Falls. The temple was built around 1111 AD by Mumunda Devi, a queen of the Chindaka Naga dynasty. It was built in the Nagara style of Hindu temple architecture and influenced by the Chalukya style as well. [2]
It is a fusion of Dravidian architecture and Nagara Bhumija styles in which sandbox technology is used to construct Vimana—horizontal stepped tower. There are hundreds of monuments in the core of Hanamakonda and Warangal of which Thousand Pillar Temple, Ramappa Temple, Ramappa Lake, Warangal Fort and Kota Gullu are prominent. [1]
Shikhara (IAST: Śikhara), a Sanskrit word translating literally to "mountain peak", refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North India, and also often used in Jain temples. 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 ...
The Sadasiva temple at Nuggehalli is a 13th-century Shiva temple with Hoysala architecture in Nuggehalli village, Hassan district, Karnataka, India. The temple is one of the best illustrations of the Hoysala era Nagara temple with the stellate style, remarkable for its octagonal star configuration with clean, simple aesthetics. [1]
Every Hindu temple ("mandir") is imbued with symbolism, yet the basic structure of each stays the same. Each temple has an inner sanctum or the sacred space, the garbha griha or womb-chamber, where the primary murti or the image of a deity is housed in a simple bare cell for darshana (view, meditative focus). [27]