The temples were both brick and stone-built, with an influence of Nagara or Kalinga style. The temples were lofty with a curvilinear shikhara (tower-like superstructure) or with a low shikhara. Many ...

Among these, the best extant example of the temple type showing a tiered superstructure surmounted by a curvilinear shikhara, is the Siddhesvara temple at Barakar, usually referred to as Temple IV ...

2. The Temples of Odisha: Lingaraja and Konark The Lingaraja Temple in Bhubaneswar and the Sun Temple at Konark both boast shikhara towers that rise in curvilinear or stepped forms, strongly ...

In this style, there is only one single Shikhara or Vimana. It is characterized by a beehive shaped curvilinear tower (called a Shikhara, in northern terminology) made up of layer upon layer of ...

The shikharas are usually beehive-like or curvilinear in shape and represent ... This is the simplest and most common subtype, where the shikhara has a square base and inward curving walls that ...