Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c38.15

c38.15

There are many examples of this class of structure distributed throughout the townships and villages of Bengal, but a typical group may be seen at Vishnupur in the Bankura district due to the encouragement given to temple building by the Malla Rajas, a dynasty which held sway in these parts for several centuries Of this group the principal temples date from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and include the Laljıı which is a single towered structure in laterite and dated 1658, and the Madan Mohan, built of brick also with one sıkhara, erected in 1694. Temples of the pancha-ratna type, or those with five towers are the Shyam Raı constructed of brick in 1643, and the laterite example of Madan Gopal dated 1665.