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CHAPTER 3
INDIAN MAJOR RELIGION, TIMELINE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ARCHITECTURE AND ELEMENTS
3.1 HINDU ARCHITECTURE
Hindu Architecture has advanced for hundreds of years from the simple slice of sake into sacred places to gigantic and sumptuous temples that extend across the Indian subcontinent and past, giving shape to a canonical style that is still maintained in current Hindu temples throughout the world. The basic components of the style are the exact and congruent geometry when viewed from each of the four sides or more, the square structure and the terrain drawing of the net, removing the towers and exposing the improved mold that incorporates divine beings, worshipers, erotic scenes, botanical and geometric animals and examples.
Hinduism did not have a specific organizer as in Christianity or Islam. It subsumed each marvel in the immense domain of India, including even neighborhood beliefs and tribal gods, so they could even be contradictory to each other. As indicated by Hindu hypothesis, even Buddhism and Jainism are only orders of Hinduism (Banerjea, 1941).
In the field of Architecture as well, those of Buddhism and Jainism, which were raised is an indistinguishable climate from that of Hinduism, have no incredible aberrations from Hindu Architecture, making it conceivable to state that their structural systems and types of their parts are totally the same.
3.1.1 Beginning and Purpose
Since the 4th AD, another type of cult or reverential known as Bhakti Hinduism develops on India subcontinent, and the ancient Vedic divine beings have been supplanted by Gods like Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Brahma and Devi. The sanctuary was seen as the residence of a specific god (devalaya). Hindus do not need to go to consistent services, but an accidental walk around the inner sanctuary, known as pradaksina and completed clockwise, was considered positive. Temples have inevitably become the particular focal objective of a network and, as required, maintenance is assured using rewards and
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