The document discusses three main styles of Hindu temple architecture: Chalukyan, Dravidian, and Northern Hindu. [1] Chalukyan style temples feature figure sculptures, columns, and ornate roofs. [2] Dravidian style temples, common in southern India, have sculptures of deities and nature, pillared halls, and tall pyramid-shaped towers called sikharas. [3] Northern Hindu style has no columned entrances, curved pyramidal roofs, and fewer figural sculptures focused on religious epics.
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The document discusses three main styles of Hindu temple architecture: Chalukyan, Dravidian, and Northern Hindu. [1] Chalukyan style temples feature figure sculptures, columns, and ornate roofs. [2] Dravidian style temples, common in southern India, have sculptures of deities and nature, pillared halls, and tall pyramid-shaped towers called sikharas. [3] Northern Hindu style has no columned entrances, curved pyramidal roofs, and fewer figural sculptures focused on religious epics.
The document discusses three main styles of Hindu temple architecture: Chalukyan, Dravidian, and Northern Hindu. [1] Chalukyan style temples feature figure sculptures, columns, and ornate roofs. [2] Dravidian style temples, common in southern India, have sculptures of deities and nature, pillared halls, and tall pyramid-shaped towers called sikharas. [3] Northern Hindu style has no columned entrances, curved pyramidal roofs, and fewer figural sculptures focused on religious epics.
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The document discusses three main styles of Hindu temple architecture: Chalukyan, Dravidian, and Northern Hindu. [1] Chalukyan style temples feature figure sculptures, columns, and ornate roofs. [2] Dravidian style temples, common in southern India, have sculptures of deities and nature, pillared halls, and tall pyramid-shaped towers called sikharas. [3] Northern Hindu style has no columned entrances, curved pyramidal roofs, and fewer figural sculptures focused on religious epics.
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Style Chalukyan style
Gateways
Plans The basic floor plan is defined by the size of the shrine, the size of the sanctum, the distribution of the building mass, and by the pradakshina (path for circumambulation), if there is one
Dravidian style
Gate-pyramids or Gopurams In the south enclosure walls were built around the whole complex and along these walls, ideally set along the east-west and north-south axes, elaborate and often magnificent gateways called gopurams led the devotees into the sacred courtyard.
Northern Hindu style
Entrance porches has no columns In the north the shikhara remains the most prominent element of the temple and the gateway is usually modest.
Style Chalukyan style
Ornaments
Columns
Roof
Figure sculptures are miniature representations that stand by themselves, including architectural components on pilasters, buildings, sculptures, and complete towers. They are generally categorised as "figure sculpture" or "other decorative features"representations of gods, goddesses, and mythical figures are in abundance
Dravidian style(southern)
Sculptures of erotic art, nature and deities
Pillard halls (Chaultris or Chawadis)
Sikharas/Sikra pyramid shaped tower consisting of progressively smaller storeys of small pavilions, a narrow throat, and a dome on the top called a shikhara (in southern terminology).
Northern Hindu style Nagara
Figural sculpture on friezes and panels changed during the period. The heroes from the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabhara ta, depicted often in early temples, become fewer, limited to only a few narrow friezes;
