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5.5 THE STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
Jain temples frequently share design and inventive fragments found in temples of different religions, they are unmistakably Jain style. Their religious structures are particularly changed as per Jain significant custom practices.
There are three main highlights of Jain temples.
There is generally more than one place of worship in a temple.
Most are wrapped by extra structures that shape some segment of the temple.
Temples are as routinely as possible stuffed together to pass on temple structures or 'temple-urban zones'.
5.5.1 Trebeated system
In the trebeated framework, simply the flat and the vertical support members are used. For instance, columns or pilasters together overpowering with cross shafts and lintels.
During the tenth and eleventh century the internal rooftops were laid circuitous with stone courses, arranged one over the other in reducing widths of span, to deliver complex plans.
Figure: 5.5 - Internal ceilings of the Jain temple with trabeated system. Source: (Vardia, 2008, p. 30)
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