Indian architectural history

A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves, common across Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most often Buddhist, but sometimes Taoist or Hindu, and were often in or near viharas. The pagoda traces its origins to the stupa, while its design was developed in ancient India. Chinese pagodas () are a traditional part of Chinese architecture. In addition to religious use, since ancient times Chinese pagodas have been valued for the spectacular views they offer, and many classical poems attest to the joy of scaling pagodas.

ancient cave temples of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism in Maharashtra, India

Buddhist complex, famous for its Great Stupa, in Madhya Pradesh, India

Architecture and design-related texts of India

Tomb in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra

Aihole (ಐಹೊಳೆ), also referred to as Aivalli, Ahivolal or Aryapura, is a historic site of ancient and medieval era Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments in Karnataka, India that dates from the sixth century through the twelfth century CE. Most of the surviving monuments at the site date from the 7th to 10th centuries. Located around an eponymous small village surrounded by farmlands and sandstone hills, Aihole is a major archaeological site, featuring over 120 stone and cave temples spread along the Malaprabha river valley, in Bagalakote district. thumb|Relief of sleeping Vishnu, now in Mumbai

200px|thumb|Patwon Ji Ki Haveli, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.

building style developed under the rule of the Hoysala Empire between the 11th and 14th centuries, in the region known today as Karnataka, in India

architectural idiom that emerged in the Southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India, consisting primarily of temples with pyramid shaped towers

thumb|right|Kirtimukha at Kasivisvesvara Temple at Lakkundi, [[Gadag district, Karnataka, India]] Kirtimukha (Sanskrit: कीर्तिमुख ,', also ', a bahuvrihi compound translating to "glorious face") is the name of a swallowing fierce face with huge fangs, and gaping mouth, very common in the iconography of Hindu temple architecture in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and often also found in Buddhist architecture.

thumb| Salabhanjika, Hoysala era sculpture, Belur, Karnataka, India A salabhanjika or shalabhanjika is a term found in Indian art and literature with a variety of meanings. In Buddhist art, it means an image of a woman or yakshi next to, often holding, a tree, or a reference to Maya under the sala tree giving birth to Siddhartha (Buddha). In Hindu and Jain art, the meaning is less specific, and it is any statue or statuette, usually female, that breaks the monotony of a plain wall or space and thus enlivens it.

Architecture of the Vijayanagara Empire, 1336–1565

temple in India

ancient umbrella term for numerous Hindu texts

style of architecture from the 11th and 12th century Western Chalukya Empire in modern central Karnataka, India

8th-century rock cut stone temple and ruins in Masrur–Lahalpur Himachal Pradesh

style of architecture

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The creation of structures, buildings, and sculptures by excavating solid rock

style in Hindu temple architecture

hindu temple in Tamil Nadu, India

hindu temple in Tamil Nadu, India

Hindu temple architecture

11th century Indian treatise on architecture

archaeological site in India

temple in India

aspect of history

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British orientalist and linguist (1921—2005)

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Historical and archaeological site in Chhattisgarh