Brick Temple of Gupta Period:
Photographed by Ashish Misra
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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