ODISHA SCHOOL – UPSC Daily Important Topic | 11 October 2021

UPSC Daily Important Topic

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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