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GLOSSARY OF ARCHITECTURAL TERMS
Adhisthana Alpanāsi Amalaka
Antarapatta Astadalapadma Bhadra Bhadraka Bhitta Bhutanāyaka Brahmakanta Chaitya window Chandrasila Dravida Dvārapāla Gadha Gajathara Gana Gavaksa Ghata
plint part nasi, gavakşa, 'chaitya-dormer' motif 'Myrobolan fruit', corowning ribbed member of Latina Nagara temples recess between major mouldings eight-pettaled lotus central offset (wall division) square pillar type plinth, rectangular course below the base leader of bhūtas tetragonal pillar type barrel-vaulted-window motif moonstone in front of a doorway southern temple-mode door guardian large central cavity in nāsi plinth moulding bearing elephants bhūta, goblin 'cow's eye' motif, nāsi, dormer, balcony vase, pot, cushin-shaped member above laśuna (sinuous), shoulder part of pillar, below the capital members in Dravidian pillar gateway, with sala type of superstructure neck, recess between the wall and sikhara and also between śikhara's upper end and crowing amalaka closed hall string of shrine miniatures that runs over the parapet of each storey of śikhara the recession between kūta and sala in the southern context and the bhadra and anuratha and karna in the northern, where it is also called salilantara stairway-banister resembling elephant trunk inverted cyma recta, lowest pitha moulding plinth, platform, basal moulding of adhisthāna seat-back pitcher, torus moulding or jar-shaped pinnacle of śikhara known also as karnikā, flattened kumuda like moulding rising above the padma on the plinth neck, recess between noulding battlement
Gopura Grivā
Gūdhamandapa Hāra
Ilarantara
Hastihasta Jadyakumbha Jagati Kaksāsana Kalasa Karņi
Kantha Kapiśirsa
