In the yard outside, I could hear someone playing a Nagara rather weakly.
They are replicas of ekatala Nagara vimanas, square in section from base to apex.
In having a square platform base to apex, it exemplifies the pure Nagara order.
The temple tower is built in Nagara style, while the dome on the tower is missing.
He plays the Nagara drums- like kettle drums but smaller and louder-
with an awesome skill and wit.
The Nagara style that is observed in different parts
of India with varied elaborations in different localities has two particular features.
The present temple is a beautiful example of the early medieval
north Indian temple architecture known as Nagara style of temples.
The Nagara style that is observed in different parts of India
with varied elaborations in different localities has two particular features.
Hoysala temples are sometimes called hybrid or
vesara as their unique style seems neither completely Dravida nor Nagara, but somewhere in between.
According to the planfour- sided, polygonal or curvilinearthe southern
vimanas are classified in the southern Silpa and Agama texts as Nagara, Dravida and Vesara.
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.
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.
They are all square on plan, three- storeyed tritala Nagara vimanas with four karanakutas and four solas intervening on the aditala and second tola prastaras,
without panjaras and devoid of the sukanasika.
They are also two- or three- storeyed Nagara vimanas, square on plan,
but with their superstructures entirely or partially restored in later times and heavily plastered over, obscuring many original diagnostic features.
This complex called Panchakuta basti( Jam temple) in Kambadahalli( Hassan district), besides being a unique combination of units
illustrating the ternary classification of the southern vimanas as Nagara, Dravida and Vesara, is interesting in its other aspects too.