{"id":39192,"date":"2024-01-20T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=39192"},"modified":"2025-04-24T02:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:07:28","slug":"nagara-style-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nagara-style-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagara Style of Temple Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in Today\u2019s Article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in the News?<\/li>\n<li>About Nagara Style of Temple Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Features of Nagara Style of Temple Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Key Differences between Nagara Style &amp; Dravida Style of Temple Architectures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ram temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh will be inaugurated on January 22.<\/li>\n<li>Chandrakant Sompura, 81, and his son Ashish, 51, have designed the complex in the Nagara style of temple architecture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Nagara Style of Temple Architecture<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nagara Style of temple architecture emerged sometime in the 5<sup>th<\/sup> century AD, during the late Gupta period, in northern India.\n<ul>\n<li>It is seen as a contemporary to the Dravida Style of architecture in southern India which too emerged in the same period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Temples classified as Nagara Style are found in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh (areas bordering Odisha) and West Bengal (southwest and Sundarbans areas).<\/li>\n<li>The sub-styles or schools are Orissa school, Chandel school and Solanki school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features of Nagara Style of Temple Architecture<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2024\/1\/20\/12\/50\/20\/65ab7434eed8c00594d1a7b0_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plan of a Nagara style of temple is four-sided.<\/li>\n<li>The garbhagriha is a perfect square whereas the whole temple plan could be oblong.\n<ul>\n<li>The garbhagriha or sanctum sanctorum houses the image or idol of the main deity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The pathway leading to the garbhagriha is the mandapa where the worshipers accumulate to have darsana.<\/li>\n<li>In the early stage of temple construction, the roofs were <a href=\"http:\/\/flat.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flat.In<\/a> the next stage of temple construction, the roof became pyramidal.<\/li>\n<li>This was the shikhara, a tall spire that tapered at the top.<\/li>\n<li>In the later stages, more additions were made to the temple complex.<\/li>\n<li>More mandapas were added and the garbhagriha was surrounded by a pradakshinapatha or a circumambulatory path.<\/li>\n<li>In some cases, gavaksa (windows) were added to allow cross ventilation for air and light.<\/li>\n<li>A N\u0101gara temple generally rests on a high platform- jagati over which is constructed a small platform called pitha.<\/li>\n<li>Rising above this is a smaller platform- adhisthana, which forms the base for the construction of superstructure of the temple.<\/li>\n<li>Among the other components of a Nagara temple are: bhadra, sirsa, amalaka, bijapuraka, rathika.<\/li>\n<li>When it comes to decorating the temples, the Nagara temples are intricately ornamented by carvings and sculptures.<\/li>\n<li>The entrance to the temple is highly decorated with images of gods and goddesses, floral and geometric designs.<\/li>\n<li>The bottom of the door frame depicts either dvarapalas or Ganga and Yamuna.<\/li>\n<li>On the walls and pillars of the temple, the sculptures and carvings depict devakanyas, apsaras, yaksas, yaksis, amalakas and floral garlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Differences between Nagara Style &amp; Dravida Style of Temple Architectures<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2024\/1\/20\/12\/50\/23\/65ab7437eed8c00594d1a7b1_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Vesara Style of Temple Architecture?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a hybrid form of temple architecture formed by an amalgamation of the northern Nagara style and the southern Dravida style of temple architecture.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) Who built the Sun Temple of Modhera?<\/h3>\n<p>Modhera Sun temple is located at Modhera village of Mehsana district, Gujarat on the bank of river Pushpavati. It is a Hindu temple built by Bhimdev I of the Solanki dynasty in 1026 AD and dedicated to the Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-culture\/nagara-style-ayodhya-ram-temple-9118010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is the Nagara style, in which Ayodhya\u2019s Ram temple is being built<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/amritmahotsav.nic.in\/blogdetail.htm?70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Official Source<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagara Style of temple architecture emerged sometime in the 5th century AD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}