- In
Indian architecture,
gavaksha or
chandrashala (kudu in Tamil, also nāsī) are the
terms most
often used to
describe the
motif centred on an ogee, circular...
- the
shikhara would have
followed these in
having four
corner bands of
gavaksha-honeycomb
sweeping uninterrupted up the full
height of the tower, while...
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monastery or
vihara (Cave 11). They are
marked by a
profusion of
decorative gavaksha or
chaitya arch motifs. Cave 7, the
chaitya hall, is
reached by a long...
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Pandava king Yudhishthira.
Shakuni was a
skilled dice-player. (2,57). ****a,
Gavaksha, Vrishava, Charmavat, Arjava, and **** were
mentioned as
brothers of Shakuni...
- Dholavira. The
oldest arches surviving in
Indian architecture are the
gavaksha or "chaitya arches"
found in
ancient rock-cut architecture, and agreed...
- A Toda
tribal hut,
often compared to
ancient Gavaksha roof and arch....
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Pallava kings, and
relate to the
central shikhara towers of
north India and
Gavaksha with gable-roof.
Between the
twelfth and
sixteenth century,
during the...
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representation of a six-armed
Mahishamardini (Durga) image,
shown inside a
gavaksha frame from the
chest upward with a headdress,
karna kundala (ornament)...
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entry into the temple. In
Dravidian architecture and
elsewhere it tops
gavaksha (kudu, nasi) motifs.
Mostly it is only a face,
indeed very
often only the...
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includes a
small tower. The roof of the
tower is
decorated with arch-like
gavaksha window shapes below an
amalaka cogged wheel-shaped crown. It is located...
