aditala in A Sentence

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    Both the rathas lack sculptures on their Aditala walls and are incomplete.

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    storeyed vimana square in its adhishthana and Aditala that carries an apsidal griva sikhara superstructure.

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    It has a small ardha- mandapa and the Aditala has a single wall, hence it is nirandhara.

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    These temples have all a typically Chalukyan plinth form, with nirandhara or single- walled Aditala and with a narrower ardha- mandapa in front.

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    While the Aditala is devoid of the hara elements on top, it has, like the top tola, four seated bhutas placed at the corners blowing conches.

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    The Aditala has thus its sanctum surrounded by two covered circumambulatory passages, the outer one functioning as such while the inner one provides access to the second tala.

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    The square vimana has a sandhara Aditala, the outer wall of which, as also the adhishthana below, is thrown out into five bays and four recesses on each side.

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    The hara of the Aditala over the top of the outer wall, consisting of kuta, sala and panjara elements, is continued over the top edges of the front mandapas.

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    The Virattanesvara temple at Tiruttani( Chingleput district) affords a very good example of a single- storeyed vimana square in its adhishthana and Aditala that carries an apsidal griva sikhara superstructure.

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    Its two square lower talas of the superposed sanctum type, with a double- walled square sandhara Aditala leaving a passage in between the walls are functional and have tirthankara forms enshrined in their sanctums.

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    The sandhara Aditala of this tritala structure is square on plan externally with an almost equal- sized closed mandapa in front, while its inner wall enclosing the sanctum is circular, leaving an intervening passage all round.

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    On plan, from foundation to the Aditala and mandapa prastara, it is a double apse or chapa, the two large apses meeting each other by their open ends resulting in an elliptical shape that is rather elongated.

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    It is essentially square on its base and tolas, but its east- facing Aditala has smaller oblong shrines with cells attached to the middle of its south, west and northern sides over corresponding offset extensions of the adhishthana.

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    The outermost wall rising to the height of the Aditala prastara is, however, present in sections only round the four corners, the intervening open sides having each a facade of two pillars and two pilasters, all vyala- based.

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    This is likewise conceived as a two- storeyed structure with the lower storey solid and non- functional and serving only as a raised platform, despite the external markings of all the architectural features of an Aditala, and the upper functional,

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    In the Dharmaraja ratha what apparently looks like the outer wall of the Aditala cantoning the corners leaving open- pillared entrances on the four cardinals, in between, is really the wall of an outer, narrow peripheral mandapa investing the Aditala or groundfloor shrine.

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    The Aditala is double- walled and its moulded base is prominently offset on all the four sides and four corners for they carry over them smaller shrines with cella in them, abutting on and incorporated with the outer wall of the main Aditala.

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    The lowermost tola of the superstructure over the Aditala with sanctum is projected in front over the antarala to form a gable- like projection called sukanasika, a characteristic of the southern temples of the Chalukyan series as well as of all their northern prasada temples.

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    The incomplete Bhima ratha appears to be pseudo- sandhara, like the Dharmaraja ratha, in that its oblong Aditala is surrounded by a narrow mandapa with walls round the corners and intervening open facades of two pillars and two pilasters on the long and short sides, the pillars and pilasters being vyala- based.

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    The pattern is really one where the wall of the Aditala garbha- griha or cella rises up as the outer wall of the second tola sanctum which is render sandham with an inner wall, in addition, that rises up higher as the wall of the third tala of lesser linear dimensions than the ones below.

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    It contains some good bas- reliefs in its wall niches which exemplify the definite polarisation of the deities in the vimana and ardha- mandapa devakoshthas, namely, Ganesa and Durga respectively, in the southern and northern outer wall niches of the ardha- mandapa and Dakshinamurti, Vishnu and Brahma respectively, in the south, west and north outer wall niches of the Aditala wall.

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