amalaka
आमलक amalakaThe ribbed, disc-shaped crowning stone of a Nagara temple tower, beneath the pot finial.
Where this term appears
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara: The Styles of the Hindu Temple Temples
At the summit sits the amalaka , a ribbed stone disc named for the amalaka fruit, and above that a kalasha , a pot-shaped finial.
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
At the summit sits the amalaka , a ribbed, cushion-shaped stone disc named after the myrobalan fruit it resembles, and on top of that the kalasha , the pot-shaped finial that crowns the whole.
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
The amalaka is the ribbed, cushion-like disc near the top, said to recall the fruit of the amalaka tree.