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Floor plan of the 5th-century Bhitargaon temple

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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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  • Bhitargaon brick temple near Kanpur is one of the oldest surviving Hindu temple ruins (site has been partly restored).
  • This is the floor plan of the temple.
  • It faces east, has a triratha plan with projections. The sanctum is about 4.57 meter square outside, a 2.13 square inside.
  • The outer walls are decorated with artwork of Vaishnavism (Vishnu), Durga (Shaktism), Shaivism (Ganesha). This tradition of co-honoring all major Hindu traditions in the same temple is witnessed in vast majority of major temple complexes throughout India, over the next fifteen centuries.
  • The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.
  • GPS location of the monument:
26° 12′ 35.3″ N, 80° 16′ 31.3″ 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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