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CHAPTER 6
DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
6.1 INTRODUCTION
Every religion have uniqueness in their Architectural style. All these Architectural styles defined by the plan form, elvational form, site area, height of the structure, orientation. This chapter discusses and examines the results of the dimensional analysis of the Jain caves and temples in the Bihar region. In this section, the strategies for analysis and relation between different parameters for the thirty-two caves and fiftyeight temples are discussed. The twenty-nine tunks on the Sammed Sikhar assumed to be one structure, because of the unique characteristic of these tunks.
6.2 Elements of Jain caves
During the study thirty-two caves of Khandgiri- Udaygiri, Odisha were documented. Various elemnets of these structures like number of storey, number of cells, plan form, type of roofs, and roof height are discussed in the following section. Table containing the detailed information about these elements is attached at Annexure I and II.
6.2.1 UDAYGIRI CAVES
All the eighteen caves of Udaygiri is analyzed for different parameters and the results
are as follows:
Number of floors
Udaygiri caves are mostly single-storeyed - only two of the eighteen caves found and surveyed in Udaygiri are double storeyed. The average ceiling of these cells were 1.33 m high. The cells in Rani Gumpha, Manchapuri Gumpha are double storeyed caves and have ceiling height of 1.05 m at both levels.
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