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Dravidians, languages of which were in totally unique branches (Bhaktipada, 1989, p. 390). The temple that demonstrates the distinction between them most unmistakably was the outline of their towers over the haven.
In the northern Type, the pinnacle takes off in the state of an ordnance shell, which is
known as a 'shikhara'. On the highest point of the shikhara is a fluted plate, an amalaka, impersonating the state of a sacrosanct organic product, anmalok, and further over it is a pitcher-like finial, a kalasha. Comparative little shikharas with similar segments are heaped up to make a more prominent shikhara, rehashing this cycle in a few layers to frame the entire mind-boggling body.
Instead of this, in the southern Type, lined smaller than normal shrines make a flat story and numerous storied heaped up in steps frame a pyramidal pinnacle. Over it is an extensive hemispheric or octagonal vault like crown stone, which is known as a 'shikhara' in southern India, truly meaning a mountain summit in sanskrit.
Among the southern type temples, the Karnataka area incited star-molded plans for garbhagrihas and a one of a kind frame made out of a few garbhagrihas and a mutual mandapa, showing their towers in the transitional state of the northern and southern types (Dehejia, 1994, p. 150).
Figure: 3.8 - A Himalayan wooden Temple at Sungra
Source: (Sim_eng, 2018) Correspondence to Climate
In spite of the fact that the Indian subcontinent has a place with the zone of storm to a vast degree, its substantial geographical territory incorporates decent variety from the
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