torana in A Sentence

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    There's your Torana there.

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    storeyed Torana gate on the north.

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    with elegant makara Torana lintels on top.

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    panjara or Torana frames.

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    of the devakoshtha or Torana type.

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    such as the patra Torana, chitra Torana⁣ ,

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    ending at the Torana entrance.

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    The Torana idea is,

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    lata Torana over it.

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    But while the entrance Torana has been retained in the northern monuments,

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    Another, important architectural feature is the Torana which is essentially an arched festoon(

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    Such free- standing Torana entrances or stambha Toranas are stated to have preceded the gopura entrances of ancient palaces.

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    This temple complex had only two entrances, a gopura( now shattered) on the east and a plain double- storeyed Torana gate on the north.

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    The recesses contain a slender pilaster carrying a shrine top at its apex over its abacus with a superposed creeper or patra- lata Torana over it.

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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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    Another, important architectural feature is the Torana which is essentially an arched festoon( occasionally straight as in the Toranas of Sanchi), mounted over two columns and marking a sacred or ceremonial entrance.

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    A similar bas- relief miniature of an ekatala vimana of a hexagonal section from base to apex is depicted inside the front sikhara arch( Torana mukhapatti) of the apsidal Nakula- Sahadeva ratha.

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    The presence of a Torana, which is not part of any other temple in the region, makes this temple unique and some of the representations indicate the builders were starters of a new culture.

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    Guardians of the eight directions project from the base of the temple in the eight directions, starting from the gateway in a clockwise direction around the porch and the deul, ending at the Torana entrance.

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    Particularly may be mentioned the variety of niche Toranas framing the devakoshthas, that depict the different forms of Toranas described in the texts and inscriptions, such as the patra Torana, chitra Torana, makara Torana, vidyadhara Torana, etc.

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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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