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with a pinnacle laden with stones, showing its sculptural exterior view (Mookerjee, 1985, p. 180).
The mandapa, before the garbhagriha, was also, in a general sense, a square room with four pillars, which sometimes turned into an imposing hypostyle hall.
Keeping in mind the end goal to solemnize temples, designers regularly expanded the quantity of mandapas, setting them in a line in the front, and occasionally included an open mandapa without fringe dividers, the yards, and even an independent holy place for a Nandi (bull), vehicle for Shiva, all in line on the pivot.
The purpose behind this way is a Hindu temple was bound to have a decided pivotal heading, following the way that garbhagriha as a god's home just a single passageway entryway in front to be bolted around evening time. This confinement made the temple difficult to spread in four ways, and induced another strategy for the solemnization of temples, including four little independent shrines in four slanting corners on the platform, giving the whole temple the type of Pancha-yatana (five shrines).
Figure 3.7:- Vishvanatha Temple of the northern type, Khajuraho
Source: (Vishvanath, 2017) The Northern and Southern Types
Through the considerable improvement of Hindu temple Architecture in the medieval period, equaling stone Architecture in Europe and the Middle East, its style was generally partitioned into two: the southern type and northern type. It may have mirrored the distinctions of likings between northern Indo-Aryans and southern
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