________________
Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
Architectural Terms
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Strut, wood, stone or iron set up to bear weight or pressure; a brace.
Stucco, kind of plaster or cement for coating surfaces. Stupa, originally, a funeral mound or tumulus, but erected by the Buddhists either to enshrine a relic or to commemorate some sacred site.
Stylobate, the base or sub-structure on which a colonnade is placed.
Suchi, cross bars in a Buddhist railing.
Sukhanasi (Chalukyan) temple vestibule. Sun window, chaitya window, large arched opening in the facade of a chaitya hall or Buddhist temple.
Supercolumniation, one row of pilasters or pillars in a story above
another.
Suraj-mukh, "sun-face". a symbolic decorative element. Surya, the sun god.
67
T
Tabernacle, small movable sanctuary; also canopied stall. Fadi, a kind of necking in a Dravidian capital.
Tala, story.
For Private and Personal Use Only
Talapattana, pavement.
Tala prishtha, lower of the two tiers of a plinth. Tandava, dance of Siva.
Temenos, sacred precincts of a temple or sanctuary.
Tempera, distemper; method of mural painting by means of a "body," such as white pigment. Thakur bari, sanctuary (Bengal). Tirthankara, Jain religious reformer. Titanic, gigantic, superhuman. Tol. quarter or ward of a town (Nepal).
Topiary, art of clipping shrubs into ornamental shapes.
Torana, gateway of Indian design.
Torri, gateway of a Japanese temple.
Torus, convex moulding chiefly used in pillar bases.
