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Give a brief account of the early medieval temple architecture of Kashmir.
- UPSC 2015
- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Walled off by its mountain ring, Kashmir developed a temple idiom between roughly the 7th and 12th centuries CE that borrowed its vocabulary from outside — Gandhara's arch forms, the Gupta ground plan, even a distant echo of classical colonnades — yet reassembled these elements into something the rest of the subcontinent did not produce:…
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- Stylistic Influences: A Gandhara–Gupta Fusion
- Representative Monuments
- Martand Sun Temple
- Avantishvara and Avantiswami Temples
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