latina
latinaA Nagara temple spire of a single curvilinear tower.
Where this term appears
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
…ons of miniature shrine-images, and naming their families: the single latina spire, the clustered sekhari , the bhumija with its rows of little spirelets running up the face.
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara: The Styles of the Hindu Temple Temples
Adam Hardy, in The Temple Architecture of India (2007), describes the latina (a single spire), the shekhari (a central spire clustered with subsidiary half-spires, the urushringa ) and the bhumija (a lattice of…
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
Within it scholars name sub-types: latina , the single soaring spire; sekhari , clustered with subsidiary spirelets; bhumija , with rows of miniature towers climbing the faces.