adhishthana in A Sentence

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    The Adhishthana is invariably of granitic stone, while the walls and superstructure may be of granite, laterite or brick and timber.

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    The navaranga forms a larger square in front, its outer walls and Adhishthana similarly relieved and recessed, and with similar external ornamentation.

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    The stature of the main vimana, with its adjunct, the ardha- or mukha- mandapa, was increased by the addition of a platform, the upa- pitha, below the Adhishthana.

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    Their Adhishthana stands over a larger moulded platform, which would form the upa- pitha, an optional member, often introduced in the design to elevate the height of a vimana.

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    The whole stands on a double plinth, as usual, the wider upa- pitha platform below and the Adhishthana, or the real base of the structures above, leaving an open ambulatory all round.

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    The shrine and its axial mandapas stand raised with their Adhishthana built over a sub- base, a feature not common in the earlier temples considered above, but usual in later temples of both Chalukyan and Pallava- Pandya derivation.

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    The shrine often shows a moulded pedestal, or Adhishthana, and the wall is cantoned at its two front corners by four- sided flat pilasters with two more in between, each of the inner pairs flanking the shrine entrance.

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    Like the Draupadi ratha, the Kerala temples in their simplest form have only the four essential parts instead of six of the simple vimana, namely, the Adhishthana or base, the bhitti or wall, the shkhara or roof, and the stupi or finial.

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    The outer wall, like the Adhishthana below, is externally relieved into five bays on each face, the central ones on the south, west and north having the large door- openings in two tiers, one over the other, for both storeys of the inner circumambulatory.

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    They are the Muktesvara, Matangesvara, Airavatesvara, Valisvara, Iravatanesvara and Piravatanesvara temples, built mainly of sandstone with granite slabs forming the base and top of the Adhishthana, and the upa- pitha platform below it in cases where it is added to raise the stature of the edifice.

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    For, judging by the components of the Adhishthana and the wall pilasters and their developed mouldings one can only attribute them, on comparison with what obtains in other cases in Aihole, Pattadkal and Badami, to a date posterior to the first half the seventh century.

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    The square aditala outer wall carries on top over its prastara four karnakutas at the corners and four salas in between over the central bays of the wall The Adhishthana below is extended forward and widened to form the base of the wider square mandapa in front.

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    What is extant of this sabha- mandapa or grand assembly hall of Uttirameru- Chaturvedi mangalam, constructed, evidently for the village sabha or assembly, is only the magnificent, stone- built plinth, the upa- pitha and the Adhishthana, the columned superstructure that stood over it having been lost.

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    They, in addition to having the Adhishthana akin to that of the southern vimana type, show also a vyala van or vyala mala, a frieze of vyalas in the entablature, an invariable component of the prastara of the southern vimana temples, and absent in all the other rekha- prasadas.

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    In front of the three external openings of the mandapas are two short flights of steps down the Adhishthana and upa- pitha heights, respectively, with two miniature vimana models posed at either end on the ground level and on top of the flight of steps over the upa- pitha platform.

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    The Adhishthana, as also the outer wall over it, are thrown out at intervals into eleven bays, three on each linear side walls, three more round the rear apse end, and two in front, where the wall turns in to embrace the front doorway of the antarala- mandapa flanking the entrance.

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    The same upa- pitha and Adhishthana are extended forward as basal structures of the axially placed ardha-, maha- and mukha- mantfapas, connected to the main vimana by a north- south transept across the ardha- mandapa, reached from either side by flights of steps over the heights of the upa- pitha and Adhishthana.

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