ardha in A Sentence

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The Ardha He dances with swords and drums.

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Some stoneflies are half- male- half- female( Ardha- nari) or hermaphrodites.

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The fresco in the ceiling of Ardha mantapa(ante chamber), which is said to be Asia's largest, measures 23 by 13 feet(7.0 m × 4.0 m).

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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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The main part of the temple beyond consists essentially of a vimana containing the sanctum with an antrala, or Ardha- mandapa, and a closed maha- mandapa axially in front.

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It is a temple unit by itself, facing east with a dvitala vimana that has an aditala built of fine grained white granite surmounted by a brickwork superstructure, Ardha-, maha- and agra- mandapas preceding the vimana,

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The Sangamesvara vimana, which is tritala, has a double- walled sandhara aditala, with the outer- wall extended forward to form the Ardha- mandapa over the similarly extended adhishthana and widening beyond to form the closed maha- mandapa with four rows of five pillars each inside.

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All these cave- temples have only two pillars and two pilasters on the mandapa facade, and a similar set behind, inside the mandapa wherever there is such a demarcation of Ardha- and mukha- mandapas, as in the Ranganathan cave- temple, the Orukkal mandapam, and Dharmaraja mandapam.

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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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Lastly, there are the examples which, like the more southern forms, have in front the transversely oblong hallsthe Ardha- and mukha- mandapas, without any vedi parapet for the latter, and where the pillars carry the sculptures on their shaft portions instead of on the bracket region as female figures that are usual in other cases.

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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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