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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.
This is achieved through a cosmic diagram (the vastu purusha mandala in Hindu temple architecture), which is used to ritually trace a hierarchy of deities on the ground where a new temple is to be built. [14] Indeed, the ground plans of many Indian temples are themselves in the form of a rectilinear abstract mandala pattern. [15]
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It goes on to state that Nagara emphasizes the four sides, Dravida a polygon (octagon), while Vesara compliments both with circular or elliptical forms. Given the many post-10th-century Hindu and Jain temple structures and ruins in Vesara form that have survived in Karnataka, the Vesara style has been linked to Karnataka and texts composed ...
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.
Homogeneous Shikhara (but with rathas) of the Lingaraja Temple in Bhubaneswar. Shikharas form an element in the many styles of Hindu temple architecture, of which the three most common are Nagara, Vesara, and Dravidian: [1] The Nagara style is more prevalent in northern India, within which, the shikhara is recognized as a high curved shape.