Harappan
·
Drainage system
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Rectangular
intersecting roads
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Sanitary system
Mauryan
·
Monolithic Pillars
·
Finely carved
capitols – Bull capitol and Sarnath capitol
·
Stupas start
during this period – 4 gateways
o Surface
built with bricks
·
Viharas and
Chaityas
o Barabar
Caves
Shunga – Satvahanas
·
Early classic
architecture
·
Carved railings
and gateways around Buddhist shrines
Kushan
·
Sculpture
developed
·
The emperor
himself was a divine authority
·
Buddha was first
time given a human form during this time
Gupta period
·
Beginning of Hindu
temples – temple at Deoghar, Udaigiri caves in Orissa
·
Vaishnavite temple
in Vidisha
Pallavas
·
Mandaps, Rathas
and finely carved panels and pillars
·
Shore temple at
Mahabs is a structural temple
·
Ratha temple is a
rock cut temple
·
Kanchipuram also
has temples
o Panels
depict shiva as Natraja
o History
of Pallavas
Cholas
·
Tanjaur Temple: 65
m tall vimana
·
Pillared halls and
sculptures depicting Bharata’s natyashastra
·
Fine paintings
Pandyas
·
Built high
outerwalls and gopuram
·
Their gopurams can
be seen from long distances
Hoysalas
·
Belur and Halebeed
temples
·
Profusion of
manifold pillars with rich and intricate carvings
·
Panels depict gods
and goddesses
Orissa Temples
·
Lingraja temple
o 40
m high
·
Sun Temple
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Nagara,
Dravida and Visara
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Nagara
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Dravida
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Visara
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Temples called
PRASADA
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Combination of
Dravida and Nagara (Chalukyas).
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Shikhara is
curvilinear
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Shikhara
pyramidal
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No role of
pillar
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Pillar important
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No tank
|
Tank may be
there
|
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No enclosure
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Enclosure and
gopuram
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Vimana
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Mahadeva Temple
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Brihadeshwara
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Eg Some in
Khajuraho, Sirpur etc
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Cave architecture
Progressed
in three phases
·
Buddhist Jain
Ajivika caves (3rd BC to 2nd AD)
o Kaneri,
Nashik, Udaigiri
·
Ajanta Ellora Cave
(5th to 7th AD)
·
Elephanta Ellora
and Mahabs (7th to 10th)
Sculpture
Two
major schools
·
Gandhara
o Greco-Roman
Style
o North
West India
o Stone
and stucco
·
Mathura
o Indigenous
style
o UP
Bihar
o White
spotted red sandstone used
o Forms
of Brahmanical deities crystallised for the first time in this art form
Themes
of Buddha and Bodhisatvas in Both