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Left: Draupadi Ratha at Mahabalipuram, 7th centuryRight: Arjuna Ratha at Mahabalipuram, 7th century

ratha/ pyramidal roof (vimana)/ imitation of wood constructions

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Durga Temple (Aihole, India) 675-725

influence of the Buddhist chaityas/ horseshoe-shaped cella

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Brihadishvara (or Rajarajeshvara) Temple at Thanjavur, begun 1002-3

gopurams/ rectangular cloister/ Chola dynasty/ King Rajaraja I

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Left: Krishna watching the gopis at their

toilette, decoration from the first gopuram

at ThanjavurBelow: First gopuram at

Thanjavur

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A painted gopuram from Madurai

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Skihara from the Brihadishvara, or Rajarajeshvara,

Temple at Thanjavur

pyramidal vimana/ stupi

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Linga gallery of the

Thanjavur Temple with

wall of paintings depicting

scenes from the mythology of Shiva, 12th

century

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Lingaraja Temple

(Bhuvanesvar, India), c. 11th-12th centuries

ascending towers/ amalaka

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Visvanatha Temple (Khajuraho, India), c. 1000

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Entrance and plan to the Visvanatha Temple

(Khajuraho, India), c. 1000

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Mt. Meru/ emphasis on the exterior/ plinths/ mandapa

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roofs of the mandapa and their pyramidal

eaves

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Tantrism/ yantra

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Ardhanari (A composite image of

male and female energy depicted as the Hindu god Shiva, with his consort Uma or

Pavarti

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Stupa at Borobudur (Java), c. 800

use of the mandala to represent the three spheres of Buddhist cosmology

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rectilinear base and the first four tiers /60 reliefs on the base/ jatakas and sutras on the rectilinear

four tiers/ circular upper four tiers

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dhyani Buddhas of the upper circular tiers

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