Sikhara

A roof in will sikhara is characteristic of the India north starting from the period post-Goupta (7th century).

It is about a hollow roof, arched in Encorbellement, which marries the base of the temple (square or more tormented) and rises by gradually curving (the shape with curvilinear edges or " out of bread of sucre"). At the top, is a circular drum, the griva, surmounted by a amalaka. This corded circular stone, perhaps sometimes surmounted of a pinnacle, would derive from the fruit of the myrobolam. The decoration of one will sikhara is composed of many small apparent stages, which form a kind of lattice or honeycomb. With the angles, one sees a superposition of roofs stressed by amalaka.

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