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- Shikhara (IAST: Śikhara), a Sanskrit word translating literally to "mountain peak", refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North...
- simple stone platform. One or more Sikharas are observed in temples, but the earliest temples consist of only one Sikhara. The garbhagriha is always located...
- Shikharji (Śikharjī), also known as Sammet or Sammed Shikharji, is one of the holiest pilgrimage sites for Jains, in Giridih district, Jharkhand. It is...
- south. These perhaps were intended to compete with the height of northern sikhara. At this time the usual gopuram was a relatively small structure over a...
- Chhmar), and Tamalinda (later became a bhikku).: 178, 180  He also fathered Sikhara Mahadevi, chief consorts of Pho Khun Pha Mueang, that appeared in Stele...
- Model of the sikhara of a Buddhist temple; 900s...
- was incorporated into ancient Hindu temple architecture with a Shikhara (Śikhara) — a Sanskrit word translating literally to "peak" or "summit". Early examples...
- period. It is an octagonal shaped temple at the base with a polygonal sikhara over it. The temple has a sunken garbhagriha which is believed to have...
- that supports a solid dome, or cupola (crowned by a pot and finial)—the sikhara. Gopura: the great entrance buildings The major Pandya contributions to...
- dimension. Above the center of this granite block rises the griva, the sikhara and the finial (stupi) of Tamil Hindu temple architecture. This stupi is...