Discuss some of the key elements of a typical northern Indian Hindu temple.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
- Its towers are meant to suggest the peaks of the Himalayas, home of the Hindu gods.
- The plan is a double cross, with arms extending north and south from the east-west axis.
- It has a columned assembly hall called a mandapa.
- The garbhagriha, or "womb chamber," is the symbolic sacred cavern at the heart of the sacred mountain/temple.
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