Nagara
nāgaraThe North Indian temple style marked by a curvilinear tower, the shikhara; its early structural form emerges in the Gupta period.
Where this term appears
- The Gupta Centuries: When Classical Hinduism Took Shape History
The northern temple form with its rising tower, the Nagara style takes its first shape here.
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
…ler, the crowds thinning, the noise falling away. The North Indian or Nagara temple does this differently.
- Konark: The Sun Temple Temples
How it was built Konark belongs to Kalinga architecture, the temple style of Odisha and a regional high point of the broader Nagara tradition of northern India.
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara: The Styles of the Hindu Temple Temples
Hindu temple architecture is traditionally sorted into three families: Nagara , Dravida and Vesara .
- The Vastu-Purusha-Mandala: The Plan Behind the Temple Temples
In "Mandala and Practice in Nagara Architecture in North India," published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society (volume 99.2, 1979), Meister studied how the grid was actually used in the Nagara templ…
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
(On how Dravida differs from the northern Nagara and the hybrid Vesara, see Nagara, Dravida and Vesara.) The gold did not appear at once.
- What is a Hindu Temple? Temples
In the Nagara style of the north, the shikhara is the whole curvilinear tower, the mountain of stone that climbs and curves toward a point.
- Why do so many temples face east? Temples
Most classical Hindu temples face east so that the deity, seated in the sanctum, looks toward the rising sun and is met by the first light of dawn. East is the…