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    ‘Washington Research Library Consortium Mail - HLL request from GW _htips://mail.google.com/mail/u/0” lof plas. 5-26-18-5 y003 Washington e ‘bay requests, WRLC ‘onsortium ILL request from GW 1 message GW ILL Department Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:44 PM To: requests@wrc.org ILA: 161613995, Futflled by the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) Shared Collections Facility From the collection of: DGW, George Washington University ILL Office, Gelman Library 2190 H Street, NW. Fim, 225 Washington, DC 20052 ILL@gwu.edu 202-994-7128 ‘Supplying Library's TN: 311621 Article Information: Call Number: DS418 .S75 1983 Location: WRLC Barcode: 2882007275467 Journal Title: Srinidhih : perspectives in Indian archaeology, art, and culture : Shri K.R. Srinivasan festschvift ISSN: Article Author: Srinivasan, K.R.; Raman, K. V. Meister, Michael Article Title: The Udayesvara Temple Pian Journal Vol: Journal Issue: Journal Month: Journal Year: Arficle Pages: 85-93 Please deliver to: VAY, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Library i 200 N. Boulevard Richmond, VA 23221-4007 Email: suzanne freeman @vmfa.museum Odyssey IP: Delivery Method: ‘Special Instructions: Requesting Library's TN: 0 11/24/2015 12:56 PM i THE UDAYESVARA TEMPLE PLAN MICHAEL W. MEISTER ‘Asan example of what can be discovered by analysis of a temple’s plan, let me present, in this forum honouring a great historian of temple architecture, a few drawings based on the plan of the Udayeévara (Nilakapthesvara) temple at Udayapur, Madhya Pradesh (Figs. 22-25). Built by Udaydditya Paramara in A.D. 1080, this temple is perhaps the most famous and elegant of Bhomija temples # in central India. “STURNED SQUARE” ¥5, ‘‘STELLATE" DESIGNATION Often referred to as “stellate,” a plan of this temple was first published by J.D. Beglar in 1878.3 Beglar makes no comment on the nature of the plan save to praise its “excellence.”” His drawing, however, is less than excellent, with the temple’s turned buttresses shown with angles ranging from acute to obtuse; in a further “diagram of construction,”” where he compares the Udayapur plan to that of a temple at Ruhilya,* the Udayapur plan is presented somewhat more accurately, the angled buttresses (rathas) shown properly as right angled, located by radial divisions from the centre of the sanctum rather than as corners of rotated squares. ‘Much more useful for our present understanding of the Udayedvara temple's plan is Krishna Deva’s discussion of “Bhamija temples,” in which he refers to vrtiajati lists in the Apardjita precha and Samararganasatradhara which list seven types: “It is significant points out, “that the Samararigana has thrice laid down that the intermediate rathas between the bhadra and the karpa are to be built by parivartana (moving round the gnomon) within the circle, which obviously refers to the stellate layout of the plan producing acute angled [sic] projections.”"* Such plans can best be called ““turned-square” plans; their pointed buttresses are always right-angled, formed by the corners of turned squares. The obtuse angles between such rathas depend on the number of rotated squares. The corners of these squares rotated around the sanctum are interrupted by the main door and by orthogonal bhadra projections ‘on the cardinal points; “‘astagala’ shrines have bhadras also on the four sub-cardinal points*; ‘ninth century temple at Indor, which uses three turned squares to form its plan, puts bhadras between each pair of angled rathas. * BACKGROUND FOR TURNED-SQUARE PLANS Early experimentation with tuned-square plans includes the octagonal temple at Mundesvart (c. A.D. 636; Fig. 21),* a series of essentially orthogonal brick temples of the

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