Bhumija Temple Architecture/Bhumija Shrines/Bhumij/भूमिज मन्दिर/UDYESHWAR TEMPLE/Nagar/NAGARA Shaily

Khajuraho Temple Architecture: Form and Transformation:    • Khajuraho Temple Architecture / खजुराहो मन...   Khajuraho Group of temples Western Group of Temples “The Bhumija, one of the two composite styles of Nagara type can be seen as a development of the Latina Shikhara. A Bhumija Shikhara consists of storied arrangement of kutas placed over miniature stambhas arranged in rows, creating an illusion of vertically thrown necklaces of gigantic beads. The Madhyalata receives a strong emphasis in the shape of a mala. The Shurasenaka is made of a single chaitya-dormer. The crowning member is the amalasaraka of a peculiar non Nagara kind where its serration follows the plan of the Shikhara.” Bhumija Temple:    • Chandella Temple Architecture | Bhumija St...   Meaning of Bhumija Etymologically, Bhumija means ‘earth born’ or ‘country born’ (Kramrisch, 1976). But the meaning “country-born” loses its validity since, apart from the Samaranganasutradhara, it is also used in the Aparajitapruccha and the Lakshmanasamucchaya compiled outside Malava. The Aparajita gives a lengthy discussion on the origin of the fourteen medieval temple-types and while it attributes the origin of all other temple-types to the deities and demons, Bhumija is the only class attributed to the human kings. Thus Bhumija might mean “of a secular origin” unlike the other forms which were believed to be of a divine or a super-natural origin. Again, since ‘bhumi’ is an architectural term meaning “storey”, this gives a third interpretation of the word Bhumija meaning “born of the storey”. This may indicate that, Bhumija was the only Nagara-mode arisen with the living memory of the compilers and that the favour accorded to it by some royal dynast was known. The Bhumija style has certain marked peculiarities, with Shikhara being the chief one. The Shikhara shows four latas with the usual chaitya arches on the central rathas and a distinctive grouping of miniature Shikharas of diminishing heights on the four quadrants between the latas, the number of these miniature Shikharas varying from three to five rows vertically and five to nine rows horizontally. Decorative in style, they are called kutastambha or stambhakuta in the texts, meaning kuta (miniature Shikharas) resting on pilasters. The sculptured medallion within a large chaitya window (Shurasenaka) at the base of the lata on the three sides and corresponding to the same feature appearing a little higher up as a Shukanasa on the front face of the Shikhara; the Shurasenaka applied on the face of the Shukanasa is as a rule larger and more elaborate. The temples of this mode are essentially ‘nirandhara’, for a sandhara plan is incompatible with the Bhumija Shikhara. There are other directives also given in the texts – as in the proportions of the doorway, the pitha (socle) and in elevational features – which the extant monuments generally follow. These texts devote a chapter exclusively to a detailed description of the ground plan, elevation and ornamentation of the Bhumija temples of three varieties of plan, namely, caturashra (orthogonal), vritta (circular) and ashtashala (comprising of eight bhadras or principal offsets). खजुराहो मंदिर की 'कामुक मूर्तियों' के पीछे है हैरान कर देने वाला इतिहास Khajuraho Temples History and Kamasutra Mystery in _______________________________________________ More Videos    • Bhumija Temple Architecture/Bhumija Shrine...      • Khajuraho Temple Architecture / खजुराहो मन...      • Chandella Temple Architecture | Bhumija St...      • Temple Architecture of Gupta Period, Deoga...      • इतिहास शब्द के बारे में/about History Word   #drmkverma #smartclasses #templearchitecture #liveclasses #onlineeducation #onlineteaching #allahabaduniversity #drmanojverma #DrManojVerma #universityofallahabad #Technical #khajurahoarchitecture #bhumijaarchitecture #ancientarchitecture #temple