File:Lakshmanesvara temple, Avani, Karnataka.jpg

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Floor plan of the 10-century Nolamba dynasty era Hindu temple, Avantika kshetra

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English: This is a JPEG format plan and architectural drawing of a historic Indian temple or monument. An alternate SVG format (scalable vector graphics) version of this file – for web graphics, design studies, print, dynamic and interactive applications – has also been uploaded to wikimedia commons.

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  • Avani is east of Kolar temple town and north of Kolar gold fields near the Karnataka-Andhra Pradesh border. Together they were an important center for Advaita Vedanta monasteries, as well as many historic temples, some of which can be traced to the 8th and 9th-centuries. Avani itself is much older, with inscriptions from the 4th-century CE.
  • Of the several major temple complexes in Avani, one is the Ramalingeswara temple. This complex has many temples, all named after the major characters in the Ramayana. These include the Ramalingeswara, Bharateswara, Lakshmaneswara, Shatruganeswara, Vali and Sugreeva, Anjaneyesvara (Hanuman), and others. This group shows early 10th-century architecture, with the exception of Shatruganeswara temple that likely is from the Western Ganga period. These illustrate the Dravidian architecture of the 9th and 10th-centuries.
  • This is the floor plan of the Lakshmanesvara temple, the most ornate temple in the Ramalingeswara group of temples.
  • The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.
  • GPS location of the monument:
13° 06′ 23.6″ N, 78° 19′ 38.5″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
  • The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible.
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