ODISHA SCHOOL – UPSC Daily Important Topic | 11 October 2021
ODISHA SCHOOL
Topic:- Art and Culture, Architecture
- Exterior walls were lavishly decorated with carvings but interior walls plane.
- No use of pillar in Porch.
- Shikhars in the odisha school were known as Rekhadeuls.
- Mandaps were known as Jagmohans in this region.
- Ground plan of main temple was square.
- Temples surrounded by Boundary wall as in Dravidian style of Temple architecture.
Example
- Lingaraj temple at Bhubaneshwar
- Jagannath temple at Puri.
- Sun Temple at Konark.
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