gopura in A Sentence

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    the mandapas and pillared malikas and Gopura.

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    storeyed and called mahadvara, or Gopura, or rajaGopuram.

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    mahadvara, or Gopura, according to its stature and magnitude.

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    Outside this Gopura is the ornate but small Nandi- mandapa.

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    the prakara and Gopura adjuncts came to be successively added

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    standing as good examples of Gopura construction in the Kerala style.

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    mandapa and Gopura, as also much of the Virinchipuram temple near Vellore,

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    Beyond is another outer Gopura that fronted a now non- existent outer prakara.

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    In addition to the inner Gopura, the prakara wall is pierced by three additional

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    east or west) on the Gopura pattern, with simpler additional entrances on the south

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    The temple has 20 storied Gopura and famous for the world's second tallest Shiva statue.

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    The word Gopura may be derived from the Tamil words ko meaning“king,” and puram meaning“exterior or gateway”;

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    while a subsidiary entrance to the north of the Gopura is in the traditional Kerala pattern with a gable roof

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    The entrance, another characteristic storeyed structure of the south, was called the dvarasobha, mahadvara, or Gopura, according to its stature and magnitude.

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    the motif is applied to many niches and entrances on the body of the vimana or the Gopura and are known as bhitti tomnas.

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    The lay out- the sanctum with its axial units, the Chandikesvara shrine, the cloister mandapa with the subsidiary shrines and a Gopura is similar to Tanjavur.

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    The Krishna temple built by Krishnadeva Raya in 1513 is another handsome temple complex with the usual components of attendant shrines, the mandapas and pillared malikas and Gopura.

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    The torana idea is, however, not lost; the motif is applied to many niches and entrances on the body of the vimana or the Gopura and are known as bhitti tomnas.

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    Of the coeval main Gopuras, the inner one in front and the rear ones are ruined on top, and the taller outer- front Gopura has the characteristic squat shape of the period.

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    From the close of the tenth century onwards when larger vimanas came to be constructed, the gateway came to assume correspondingly larger proportions, becoming many- storeyed and called mahadvara, or Gopura, or rajaGopuram.

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    The whole complex is surrounded by a massive stone prakara, with four- storeyed gateways on the four cardinal sides with slopy gable roofs, standing as good examples of Gopura construction in the Kerala style.

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    The Gopura is double- storeyed with a sala sikhara on top and a passage cut through its lower part to provide access to the forecourt in front and the circumambulatory passage round the base of the main vimana complex.

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    But while the entrance torana has been retained in the northern monuments, as at Sanchi and Bhubaneswar, it is the Gopura entrance that has prevailed in the south and forms the most characteristic and invariable part of the temple complex.

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    Another inscription close to the Gopura, records that an image was brought from Kalyani, then known as Kalyanapura by emperor Rajadhiraja Chola I after his defeat of the Western Chalukya king Someshwara I, his sons Vikramaditya VI and Someshwara II his capture of the Chalukyan capital.

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    This could be seen particularly in the case of those ancient temples where the main vimana nucleus that was ancient was kept intact and the prakara and Gopura adjuncts came to be successively added round it in later times as in the Chidambaram, Tiruvannamalai, Madurai and Srirangam temple complexes.

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    The Nayaka period in Tamil Nadu witnessed the addition of elaborate mandapas of the hundred- pillared type, and larger Gopuras with a greater number of plastic stucco figures on them, as at Vellore and Madurai, their tallest Gopura superstructure being at Srivilliputtur( Ramanathapuram district) in front of the Vatapatrasayin temple.

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    The open- pillared mandapa round the complex, with stone pillars, and the eastern gopum of stone body and brickwork superstructure are in the style of Tamil Nadu temples, while a subsidiary entrance to the north of the Gopura is in the traditional Kerala pattern with a gable roof and kilivasal nasikas.

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    The entire temple complex inside the Vellore fort including the kalayana- mandapa and Gopura, as also much of the Virinchipuram temple near Vellore, is the work of the Bommi Nayakas of Vellore, What we see, however, of temples or their ruins inside the extensive fort at Gingee and its neighbourhood is the creation of Gingee Nayakas.

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    While a great part of the stone enclosure wall, Gopura, two- storeyed malika, and sub- shrines and mandapas were blasted and pulled down in the last century to supply stones for constructing a river dam in the neighbourhood, the main vimma and its axial mandapa, and two or three lesser vimana units in the court have fortunately been spared and are even now almost intact.

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