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frosty area of the Himalayas to southern India in the subtropical zone through hot-dry western India grasping an awesome desert. Hindu temples have likewise a wide assortment relating to those climates. The first component achieving the variety is the building materials.
Central India, having countless rough mountains, turned into the most swarmed territory for cave temples. The delta districts along the Indus in the west and the Ganges in the east don't produce stone of good quality, so block has been utilized as the fundamental material since the season of the Indus Valley Civilization. Block temples in Bengal secured with earthenware boards, prepared with carvings executed on not completely dried dirt, colored towns the shade of Indian red.
Wooden temples plummeted from ancient Architecture to some degree are found in the Himalayan district in the north and the Kerala locale in the south, both are honored with much precipitation and forests. Particularly in hilly Himachal Pradesh there are interesting wooden temples surmounted with tapered or gambrel roofs, totally unique fit as a fiddle from stone temples in the lower Indian planes.
Be that as it may, what underlies these wooden temples is the piece of; there is no contrast amongst these and stone temple in demonstrating the dwelling place god by its wooden 'shikhara' on a little chamber (Banerjee, Jitendra Nath, 1941).
Figure: 3.9 - Lorojonggrang Temple at Prambanan, Java
Source: (Prambanan temple compounds, 2018)
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