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Shikhara (IAST: Śikhara), a Sanskrit word translating literally to "mountain peak", refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North India, and also often used in Jain temples. A shikhara over the garbhagriha chamber where the presiding deity is enshrined is the most prominent and visible part of a Hindu temple of North India.
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.
Bhumija is a variety of north Indian temple architecture marked by how the rotating square-circle principle is applied to construct the shikhara (superstructure or spire) on top of the sanctum. Invented about the 10th-century in the Malwa region of central India (west Madhya Pradesh and southeast Rajasthan ) during the Paramara dynasty rule, it ...
Above the vastu-purusha-mandala of each temple is a superstructure with a dome called Shikhara (or Vimana, Spire). [44] Variations in spire design come from variation in degrees turned for the squares. The temple Shikhara, in some literature, is linked to mount Kailash or Meru, the mythical abode of the gods. [30]
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.
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.
Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho, with 84 urushringa around the shikhara Detail of the same temple. Urushringa (Sanskrit: uruśṛn̍ga उरुशृङ्ग, lit. having high peak) is a subsidiary tower springing from the sides of the main shikhara tower in the Hindu temple architecture of northern India.
Close up of parapet wall relief in Chennakeshava temple at Hullekere Shrine and Shikhara (tower) in Chennakeshava temple at Hullekere. The Chennakeshava temple, dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu is located in the village of Hullekere, in the Arasikere Taluk, about 22 km from the commercial town Arasikere.