| Temples & Legends Of Bengal |
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| Apart from
these Chanditalas there might be other open spaces where the images would be left
exposed to nature. Very often there would be some image near the village tanks and bathers
would offer puja very reverentially although it would hardly strike them that
they were not even offering a shelter to the deities they worship. From the
Thakur Ghar in the household and Chanditala, there was an evolution of the Bengali
Do-chala, Char-chala or At-chala temple which wasas mentioned earlier only a replica
of the huts where the Bengal villagers live. Jor-Bangla
temples are also common and they are nothing but two roofs of huts adjoining each other.
Ordinary clay and mud, mud-baked bricks and the normal indigenous tools of the mason and
the architect have produced a number of superb temples scattered in different parts of
Bengal. The contribution of sculptors on the mud walls and on the mud-baked bricks is of a
very high order. Some of the temples of Bankura district like Jor-Bangla temple and
Madan Mohan temple at Bistupur, Shree Dhar temple at Sonamukhi show very fine specimens of
sculpture. Sculptors are as successful in depicting figures of birds and animals,
bullock-carts, scenes of Shikar as they are clever in panel work. |
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