Alampur, South Deccan. Visva Brahma Temple from southeast. 8th cent.

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Kramrisch, Stella
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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The curvilinear sikhara, consolidated in the definition of its parts, rises above a hall-temple in which the sanctuary is at [the] western end. Here as in all vimanas preceded by a mandapa, a door framed by a series of jambs enriched with symbolic sculptures, leads into the mandapa
a second door, coaxial with the outer door and richer as a rule in framing sculpture leads from mandapa to garbhagriha. Its place within the building is in continuation of the east face of the sikhara.

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Basham Collection

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1954

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