1. Sandhara type
  2. Nirandhara type
  3. Sarvatobhadra type
  4. Sharikrida type
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Option 4 : Sharikrida type

The correct answer is Shankrida type.

  • The shrines of the temples during early India were the Shankrida type is not a type of shrine.
  • Sharikrida is author Krishna Trilok's debut novel.

  • With the construction of the Stupas, the construction of the Hindu temples also started as free-standing structures.
  • The subject matter of the deities in the Hindu temples were the mythical stories narrated in the Puranas.
  • There were three kinds of temples on the basis of access and the circumambulatory path built in it.
  • Sandhara
    • These types of temples have a square sanctum enclosed by a gallery of pillars meant for Pradakshina.
    • Thus, the Sandhara temples have a Pradakshinapatha.
  • Nirandhara
    • These types of temples do not have Pradakshinapathas.
  • Sarvatobhadra
    • These types of temples have four functional doors in a cardinal direction and also a Pradakshinapatha with a row of 12 pillars around the sanctum sanctorum.
    • These types of temples could be accessed from all sides.
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