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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.
Rajarani Temple, Bhubaneswar. Sekhari or Shekhari is a type of northern Indian shikhara (tower or spire on top of a shrine) which comprises a central Latina spire with urushringa half spires added on all sides. [1] It is a one of two sub-types of shikhara, the other being bhumija.
Krishna Mandir is a 17th-century Shikhara-style temple built by King Siddhi Narsing Malla. [1] It is located at the Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the city of Lalitpur in Nepal. [2] It was damaged by the Nepal earthquake of April 2015, and was later restored in 2018. [1] [3]
Latina shikhara at Manali, Himachal Pradesh, with a ratha in the centre of each face. In Hindu temple architecture, Latina or Rekha Prasad is the most common type of northern Indian shikhara (tower or spire on top of a shrine), whose form is a single slightly curved tower with four sides of equal length, thus square in plan.
Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga (IPA: [mahākāleśvara]) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, shrines which are said to be the most sacred abodes of Shiva. It is located in the ancient city of Ujjain in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The temple is situated on the side of the holy river Shipra.
At the base of Shikharji is a temple to Bhomiyaji (Taleti). On the walls of the Jain temple at the village of Madhuban, there is a mural painting depicting all the temples on Parasnath Hill. Śvētāmbara Bhaktamara temple, established by Acharya Ramchandrasuri, is the first temple to house a Bhaktamara Stotra yantra. [27]
A mandir is a Hindu, Jain or Buddhist temple. The term shikharbaddha is composed of the Sanskrit word shikhara, meaning mountain peak, and baddha, meaning bound [2] Thus, a shikharbaddha mandir refers to a type of Hindu or Jain temple with a pinnacle atop its sacred shrine that makes it appear bounded by a mountain peak.
A seven-storey vimana. Vimana is the structure over the garbhagriha or inner sanctum in the Hindu temples of South India and Odisha in East India. In typical temples of Odisha using the Kalinga style of architecture, the vimana is the tallest structure of the temple, as it is in the shikhara towers of temples in West and North India.