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DRAKSHARAMA |
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architecture, the Draksharama temple shows a beautiful and harmonious blend of the Chola
and Chalukya in adaptation, which can only styles and shows a catholicity result by
decades of close admixture. The vimanas over the main Garbha griha, with its horizontal
motif, and with an octagonal type is a good specimen of the Dravida type of temple
architecture. The Western gopura is an amazing structure with seven stories, and is
clearly of Chola origin, and reminds one of the many Chola temples of the South. There are
beautiful pillared mantapas all round the shrines, and these must have come into existence
at a later date. In the Mukha Mantapa, there are pillars with scenes depicted in
sculpture, which clearly must be only Chalukya in origin. The very important and
interesting feature of this temple is that we have in Draksharama, probably the only
remaining piece of evidence as to how the artisans of the past constructed their temples.
There is a small 'model temple' made out of a single stone, and built exactly according to
the type of the original temple. It is thus clear that originally when a big temple was
conceived of, a model on a small scale was first done, and then, it was later amplified
into a main temple, according to scale. |
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