Humayun Tomb
MUGHAL ARCHITECTURE
The Mughals were great patron of art and architecture. Under them, architecture regained its place of importance, as new buildings were built with great vision and artistic inspiration.
BABUR
Babur undertook the constitution of mosques in Panipat and Rohilkhand, both constructed in 1526 AD.
However, his reign was too short- lived to inspire any new style and techniques.
HUMAYUN
Humayun's reign was marked with constant power struggle against Sher Shah Suri.
So he couldn't focus more on art and architecture.
He led the foundation of a city named Dinpanah, but couldn't finish it.
Persian style became prominent in the architecture of this period..
MONOLITHIC TEMPLES IN INDIA ( Part - 1 )
📌Chaityas.
📍Large number of buddhist and jain cave temples known as chaityas were cut in india during the ancient age.
📍Buddhist chaitayas had stupas inside them and jain chaityas had images of tirthankaras.
📍Ajanta, karle, pitalkhora, kanheri, junnar, bhaja and kondana located in Maharashtra are the prominent locations of buddhist chaityas.
📍Jain cave temples are located in udaygiri khandagiri hills of odisha. In ancient times these hills were known as Kumari parvat. Udaygiri hills have 18 caves and khandagiri hills have 15 caves. These caves were sculpted during the reign of the famous kalinga ruler kharavela.
📍Ranigumpha cave located in udaygiri hills is most beautiful among these caves . it is double storeyed monument.
MONOLITHIC TEMPLES IN INDIA ( Part - 2 )
Mandapas
📍A large number of hindu cave temples known as mandapas were carved under the patronage of pallava rulers of Kanchipuram in 7
th century AD.
📍King mahendravarman 1 started the tradition of cutting caves . he was famously known as chaityakari for his patronage to Architecture.
📍Pancha-pandava mandapa located at pallavaram and mahendravishnugraha mandapa located at mahendravadi are example of cave temples cut during
mahendravarmana I. These caves represent mahendra style of architecture.
📍Adivaraha mandapa and Ramanuja mandapa located at Mahabalipuram are the finest example of mammala style of architecture located at
Mahabalipuram are the finest examples of mamalla style of architecture.
📍Ellora caves located in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra have buddhist, jain as well as hindu bahmanical cave temples.
📍Caves number 16 located at Ellora is the world famous for kailasha temple.
MONOLITHIC TEMPLES IN INDIA ( Part - 3 )
📌Ratha temple
📍Ratha temples are monolithic monuments cut out of live hills. The term ratha does not mean a chariot but it refers to procession form of entire structure.
📍Sapta pagoda located at Mahabalipuram are examples of ratha temples. These monuments were cut during the reign of pallava king narsimhavarman 1 in 7th century AD. Though the name is sapta pagoda but in reality they are 8 in number.
📍The sapta pagoda of Mahabalipuram comprises :- Dharmaraja ratha, Draupadi ratha, arjuna ratha, bhima ratha, nakula-sahadeva ratha, ganesh ratha, pindari ratha, valaiyan-kuttai ratha.
