The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s2.t3.7
The Hindu Temple v1.c9.s2.t3.7
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v1.c9.s2.t3.7
The other constituent of Śikhara II[B] is the straight trunk of the superstructure in its pyramidal forms such as has been discussed in different stages and types (Figs. a-c). Both the curvilinear Śikhara as also the pyramidal superstructure were built not only in the earlier centuries at one and the same place, in Mahākūṭa and Aihole or in Satvel, Kurnool, in the Deccan, but—by the side of each other—also in the Western Himalayas, in Dvarahat, Almora.⁶⁹