Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture - North and South India
author: Michael W. Meister
edition: 1986, American Institute of Indian Studies
pages: 6147
Topic: History
Chapter 13 - Kalacuris of Tripuri: Mandapika Shrines
This chapter describes Kalacuris of Tripuri: Mandapika Shrines located on page 161 in the book Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture (North and South India) compiled by Michael W. Meister, George Michell and M. A. Dhaky. These books deal with Indian temples from the early centuries. South India developed the Dravidian style while North India expressed symbolic experimentation of the divine manifestation.
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Temples of Munnur (Historical Study) [by R. Muthuraman]
Sub shrines. In large temples there are a number of subsidiary shrines around the central shrine called parivaralayas for parivara devatas. This can be observed in the Kailasanatha temple at Kanchipuram and Talagirisvarar temple at Panamalai. During the early Chola period, sub shrines were demarcated from the central shrine and formed separate shrines in the prakara. In the succeeding periods the number of these shrines were increased commensurate with the formation of the main temple....
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Jainism in Odisha (Orissa) [by Ashis Ranjan Sahoo]
The village has a number of small shrines of Brahmanical faith namely Mandalshri (Pl. XIIA), Boulei, Kushumei and Gadachandi. But the small Mandalishri RCC shrine contains a Jaina chaumukha (Pl. XIIB). The chaumukha (27x9cm) has similar representation as like one displayed in Ayodhya museum except rampart lions at the bisama portion of the miniature shrine....
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
To the north-east of the Stupa is a oblong shaped building thought to be a Bodhisattava s shrine, near the back wall of the shrine, about 30 cm below the original floor, Marshall found a vase shaped casket of grey micaceous schist that contained a silver vase inside. The silver vase held a silver scroll and a small gold casket containing bone fragments....
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