Left: Draupadi Ratha at Mahabalipuram, 7th centuryRight: Arjuna Ratha at Mahabalipuram, 7th century
ratha/ pyramidal roof (vimana)/ imitation of wood constructions
Durga Temple (Aihole, India) 675-725
influence of the Buddhist chaityas/ horseshoe-shaped cella
Brihadishvara (or Rajarajeshvara) Temple at Thanjavur, begun 1002-3
gopurams/ rectangular cloister/ Chola dynasty/ King Rajaraja I
Left: Krishna watching the gopis at their
toilette, decoration from the first gopuram
at ThanjavurBelow: First gopuram at
Thanjavur
A painted gopuram from Madurai
Skihara from the Brihadishvara, or Rajarajeshvara,
Temple at Thanjavur
pyramidal vimana/ stupi
Linga gallery of the
Thanjavur Temple with
wall of paintings depicting
scenes from the mythology of Shiva, 12th
century
Lingaraja Temple
(Bhuvanesvar, India), c. 11th-12th centuries
ascending towers/ amalaka
Visvanatha Temple (Khajuraho, India), c. 1000
Entrance and plan to the Visvanatha Temple
(Khajuraho, India), c. 1000
Mt. Meru/ emphasis on the exterior/ plinths/ mandapa
roofs of the mandapa and their pyramidal
eaves
Tantrism/ yantra
Ardhanari (A composite image of
male and female energy depicted as the Hindu god Shiva, with his consort Uma or
Pavarti
Stupa at Borobudur (Java), c. 800
use of the mandala to represent the three spheres of Buddhist cosmology
rectilinear base and the first four tiers /60 reliefs on the base/ jatakas and sutras on the rectilinear
four tiers/ circular upper four tiers
dhyani Buddhas of the upper circular tiers