The Trivikrama Temple , also named Ter Temple , is a temple of Vamana (an incarnation of Vishnu) in Ter, Maharashtra . Henry Cousens , followed by most later writers, believed that it was originally a Buddhist temple, however in 1957 M. S. Mate disputed this view.
7-499: The temple is original in that it was initially based on a free-standing apsidal structure, now located at the back of the building, which is characteristic of early Buddhist apsidal caityagriha designs. The apsidal structure seems to be contemporary to the great apsidal temple found in Sirkap , Taxila , which is dated to 30 BCE-50 CE. It would have been built under the Satavahanas , in
14-781: A Chaitya-style, is the Pallava period Kapoteswara temple at Chezarla in Guntur district . The legend behind the deity Kapoteswara is the story of Sibi in Mahabharata which also occurs in Sibi Jataka The Trivikrama Temple is considered as the oldest standing structure in Maharashtra. Apsidal In architecture , an apse ( pl. : apses ; from Latin absis , 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς , apsis , 'arch'; sometimes written apsis ; pl. : apsides )
21-521: Is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome , also known as an exedra . In Byzantine , Romanesque , and Gothic Christian church (including cathedral and abbey ) architecture , the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end (where the altar is), regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical. Smaller apses are found elsewhere, especially in shrines . An apse
28-401: Is a semicircular recess, often covered with a hemispherical vault. Commonly, the apse of a church, cathedral or basilica is the semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or sanctuary , or sometimes at the end of an aisle. Smaller apses are sometimes built in other parts of the church, especially for reliquaries or shrines of saints. The domed apse became a standard part of
35-546: Is reserved for the clergy, and was therefore formerly called the "presbytery", from Greek presbuteros , " elder ", or in older and Catholic usage "priest". Semi-circular choirs, first developed in the East, which came into use in France in 470. By the onset of the 13th century, they had been augmented with radiating apse chapels outside the choir aisle, the entire structure of apse, choir and radiating chapels coming to be known as
42-473: The 2nd or 3rd century CE. The external flat-roofed mandapa structure is probably only an addition from the 6th century CE, when the temple was converted into a Hindu temple. A stone image of Trivikrama probably dates to the early Chalukyas . The front of the apsidal temple is decorated with a chaitya -arch, similar to those found in Buddhist rock-cut architecture . Another known Hindu temple constructed in
49-485: The church plan in the early Christian era. In the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition, the south apse is known as the diaconicon and the north apse as the prothesis . Various ecclesiastical features of which the apse may form part are drawn together here. The chancel (or sanctuary), directly to the east beyond the choir , contains the high altar, where there is one (compare communion table ). This area
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