Aihole - Karnataka, Durga temple, View from West.

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Durga temple or fortress temple is the best known of the Aihole temples and is very photogenic. It is apsidal in plan, along the lines of a Buddhist chaitya, a high moulded adisthana and a tower - curvilinear shikhara. A pillared corridor runs around the temple, enveloping the shrine, the mukhamantapa and the sabhamantapa. All through the temple, there are beautiful carvings. The temple appears to be of the late 7th or early 8th century.

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Size: 3396px × 5074px
Location: Karnataka, India.
Photo credit: © Shreekant Jadhav / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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