Temple Architecture-Different Styles - II Blog by Swamini Atmaprajnananda Saraswati

Temple Architecture-Different Styles - II Blog by Swamini Atmaprajnananda Saraswati

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Pranams to your divinity, Swaminiji for this great great great contribution to speaking tree, on temples and heritages ! i feel for a moment that i am there and experiencing all the thrills of the theertha yathra, in this ''e-tour'' at once one overflows in emotions at the sight of such grandeur, so much devotion, extreme commitment, creative imagination that has been expressed in the temple architecture, as if the builders have had a direct peep into the devaloka, and absorbed the beauty truth and bliss and came down to earth to share with all the world for ever particularly one becomes utterly humble in the way ..kannada saint basava ...felt ... enjoying the presence of divinity, in present moment, here and now, ಉಳ್ಳವರು ಶಿವಾಲಯ ಮಾಡುವರು ನಾನೇನು ಮಾಡಲಿ ಬಡವನಯ್ಯಾ ಎನ್ನ ಕಾಲೇ ಕಂಬ, ದೇಹವೇ ದೇಗುಲ, ಶಿರವೇ ಹೊನ್ನ ಕಳಸವಯ್ಯಾ ಕೂಡಲಸಂಗಮದೇವಾ ಕೇಳಯ್ಯಾ, ಸ್ಥಾವರಕ್ಕಳಿವುಂಟು ಜಂಗಮಕ್ಕಳಿವಿಲ್ಲ, uLLavaru shiválaya máduvaru nánénu mádali badavanayyá enna kále kambha dehavé degula shiravé honna kaLashavayyá Kúdala Sangama Devá keLayya sthavarakkaLivunTu jangamakaLivilla The rich will make temples for Shiva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, The body the shrine, The head a cupola of gold. Listen, O lord Kudal Sangama deva, Things standing shall fall, But the moving ever shall stay "ಎಲ್ಲೋ ಹುಡುಕಿದೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ ದೇವರಕಲ್ಲು ಮಣ್ಣುಗಳ ಗುಡಿಯೊಳಗೆಇಲ್ಲೇ ಇರುವ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಸ್ನೇಹಗಳಗುರುತಿಸದಾದೆವು ನಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆ || ಎಲ್ಲೋ ||ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ನಂದನ ಎಲ್ಲಿದೆ ಬಂಧನಎಲ್ಲಾ ಇವೆ ಈ ನಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆಒಳಗಿನ ತಿಳಿಯನು ಕಲಕದೆ ಇದ್ದರೆಅಮೃತದ ಸವಿಯಿದೆ ನಾಲಗೆಗೆ || ಎಲ್ಲೋ ||ಹತ್ತಿರವಿದ್ದೂ ದೂರ ನಿಲ್ಲುವೆವುನಮ್ಮ ಅಹಂಮಿನ ಕೋಟೆಯಲಿಎಷ್ಟು ಕಷ್ಟವೋ ಹೊಂದಿಕೆಯೆಂಬುದುನಾಲ್ಕು ದಿನದ ಈ ಬದುಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ || ಎಲ್ಲೋ ||ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ – ಜಿ ಎಸ್ ಶಿವರುದ್ರಪ್ಪಸಂಗೀತ / ಗಾಯನ – ಸಿ ಅಶ್ವಥ್I searched elsewhere for god who is not therein the temples of stone and mudmissing to see the friendliness and love that is right here amongst usWhere is nandan, where is bandhanevery thing is within uswithout knowing what lies withinhow can tongue taste the sweetnessThough we are nearestwe stand afar in the fort of the egowhat a great trouble unable to accommodatein the short life of four days--------g s siva rudrappa"Thank you for your kind illuminating response just a coincidence, i have similar views, and similar queries on the temple architecture, and the principles that go into the conceiving and designing a temple, /a holy structure  Swaminiji has given excellent answer thru sharing a valuable basaveshvara vachana , kindly see it .  your response is helping me to share some clues from my own insights as follows basically , a temple design is conceived by self realized souls, trying to express their findings on the divinity within themselves , and s o a temple essentially a visible model of the human being, his body, the 5 sheeths, inner most being the garbhagudi, the abode of the self ,  it is an excercise in artistic presentation of that idea , we can draw detailed lessons from the shape and construction  one point to be noted that all have a significance, best known by the designer  not only this, several enigmas exist on the significance of every detail like why bells, lamps, harathi, abhisheka, puja, pradakshina , , also prana prathishta, shatagopa, and the manthrocharan etc ...that is relevant but outside the scope of this blog, presenting the magnificence of the temple heritage preserved thru architecture enduring till now  masters will be able to give detailed answers  thank you, i agree that appreciation and valuing only the shape size beauty of the temples is not the whole story, at least it leads a few like you to do a bit more enquiry and get at the real thing