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Give a brief account of the early medieval temple architecture of Kashmir.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200

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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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  • Patrons and Chronological Span
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  • Stylistic Influences: A Gandhara–Gupta Fusion
  • Representative Monuments
  • Martand Sun Temple
  • Avantishvara and Avantiswami Temples
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