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The Component Parts of the Full-Fledged Temple were erected chiefly pillared halls or subsidiary shrines and also certain buildings of semi-religious character such as granaries, and store rooms etc. 24
The Gopuram is a structure in connection with the entrance to the court-yard of the temple. In place of what should have been the main gateway a large subsidiary chapel has been introduced, complete with cella, vestibule and stairway approch, the actual doorways into the court-yard being relegated to openings on the either side.25 The gopuram as this type of temple portal is called, derived its name in the first instance from the “Cow-gate” of the vedic village, afterwards becoming the citygate, and subsequently the monumental entrance as to the temple. 26 A typical example of a gopuram depicts a building oblong in plan rising up into a tapering tower often over forty-five meters in height, and entered by a rectangular doorway in the centre of its long side. 27 in Northern Indian temple style, the structure, instead of Gopuram, is known as Balāņaka.
Kirtitoraṇa with exquisite carving and delicay is known all over the western India especially in Gujarat and Rajsthana. The Kirtitorana is a form of Toraņa, usually an accompaniment to the temple design, standing as its outer entrance, but there were some for the ceremonial- of swinging the god ( hindolā ). All the parts forming Kirtitorana are devised on the same principles as those employed in the temple design, with the spreading base, figured shaft, bracket capitals, and tabernacled superstructure being of much the same order, but, if anything, even more ornate.2 8
24. IABH. p. pp. 114-115 25. IABH. F. p. 100 26. IABH. p. p. 106 27. IABH. p. p. 106. 28. IABH. p. 149.
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