shekhari
shekhariA Nagara spire whose central tower is clustered with subsidiary half-spires.
Where this term appears
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara: The Styles of the Hindu Temple Temples
…hitecture 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 miniature spirelets running …