The Nagara architectural style, which was popular in
northern and eastern India, included a temple tower as its major feature.
Although there were many lesser, subsidiary towers to draw
the eye up to that principal one, the temple's highest tower was always
squarely above the image of the temple's primary god.
There are two major variants within this overall design, as
seen in the temples of Khajuraho and Orissa.
A collection of shikharas is combined into a single
continuous upward swell in the Khajuraho style, which leads the eye upward like
a sequence of hills ascending to a distant summit.
The Orissan style, on the other hand, emphasizes the
disparities between the temple's components, with a low entry hall (jagamohan)
adjacent to a beehive-shaped temple tower (deul) that is frequently three or
four times higher than the entrance hall.
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