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media related to
Shikharas. Meru
tower Vimana (architectural feature)
Hindu temple architecture Balinese temple Stupa Kadamba Shikhara "Archived copy"...
- stone, the
shikhara in the
shape of a
polygonal beehive-like dome is made of brick,
which is
characteristic of
temples in Kamrup. The
shikhara is circled...
- two m****ive rock
outcrops known as the
Bhairaveshwara Shikhara and the
Mohini Shikhara ("
Shikhara"
means "mountain peak"). The huge
rocks are composed...
- Many
shikharas in Java
collapsed because of the
frequent earthquakes hitting this island. It was
easier to
restore a meru than a
stone shikhara. Meru...
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architecture has also been
uncovered at Nagarjunakonda. The
early evidence of
Shikhara type
domical crowing structure has been
noted in the
palatial architecture...
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north has
taller towers,
usually curving inwards as they rise,
called shikharas.
Larger modern Dravidian style temples, however,
include one or more high...
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temple complete with a
shikhara. One
architect named Kokasa ****ured the king that the
queen would be able to see the
shikhara of a
temple within a w****'s...
- architecture, the
vimana is the
tallest structure of the temple, as it is in the
shikhara towers of
temples in West and
North India. By contrast, in
large South...
- by some 20
steps down from the mandapa, and is open to the sky as the
shikhara tower above stops abruptly at a
little above the
height of the mandapa...
- have been
rebuilt at some point) but the
current temple is in
Shikhara style.
Shikhara style of
temple architecture is
considered older than the much...
