Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Brick Temple Of Gupta Period At Korari

Brick Temple of  Gupta Period:

Kurari:-Village Ladgawan is situated at a distance of about 19 km. from Fatehpur on Banda-Sagar Road. About 1 km. from Ladgawan is village Kurari. The monument is leaning 3-4 degree towards north "In plan it is a polygon sixteen sides externally standing on a circular plinth with a circular chamber 6.8" in diameter. The walls are 3.4” thick. The chamber was covered with a pointed dome with brick and to end after the Hindu fashion and there was a second domed chamber, above to lessen the weight on the walls. Outside the whole surface of the walls is richly decorated with deeply cut arabesque ornament in perpendicular lines, the edge of each face being distinctly marked by sunken lines by the omission of a brick in every alternate course".


Photographed by Ashish Misra

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