cella in A Sentence

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    The inner wall of a typical short apse or chapa form encloses the Cella.

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    The most characteristic feature of the style is the door- frame of the Cella with elaborate over- door components.

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    These cave- temples of Eastern Chalukyan authorship show individualistic characters in their lay- out, iconography and the scheme of the Cella.

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    The Cella is rectangular and has provision for a platform on its rear with a socket in it for Vishnu or Durga, but not for Siva or a linga.

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    The two bas- relief replicas in miniature on either flank of the facade of the Ramanuja mandapa cave- temple are likewise ekatala, Nagara forms, but with their Cella empty.

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    Being four- sided and square from base to finial, it belongs to the Nagara class and is dedicated to Vishnu, who is shown in relief as standing inside the Cella.

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    The corresponding one on the east is also oblong with the sala superstructure having a passage through in place of a Cella and functioning as the antarala passage to the main sanctum.

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    The series of small and elegant all- stone temples at Kaliyapatti, Tiruppur, Visalur and Panangudi( Pudukkottai district) have square ekatala vimanas with simple moulded adhishthanas, less than 2 metre square at the base, carrying on top over the Cella a square griva and sikhara.

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    This scheme of anarpita hara was possible in the case of vimanas where the Cella was sandhara, or enclosed by a double wall, with circumambulatory interspace between the two walls and with the inner wall rising to a greater height to form the second tala harmya, while the outer wall rose to the height of the aditala alone carrying over its prastara and hara.

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