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Manipur The Vishnu Temple Of Bishanpur
The Vishnu temple is located at the town of Bishanpur. The entire structure is formed of high quality bricks along with the mud plaster.
History
The Vishnu Temple of Manipur was constructed by the ruler Kyamba during 1507 AD. It is the most ancient temple in the state of Manipur.
Architecture
The temple dates back to 1507 AD but has a great architecture drawing a number of tourists here. The pedestal comprises of a series of five layers of brick in an arrangement which is concentric. The layer found at the lower level begins on a platform which is 1-2 inches high. The layers of bricks at the corners are found towards portico and the staircases are positioned in such a way for making a parallel turn that it forms an amazing coherency of layers of bricks in niches. The temple is two- storeyed and the cube of lower sanctum as well as the upper sanctum along with lower Jangha and upper Jangha is found. The porch reaches the front towards the cornice in its altitude. The cornice makes a beam of 5 brick layers which step out in an ascending order from the vertical point alignment and in the same manner 5 layers of bricks step back in a descendingorder once more to the vertical alignment point in the middle of lower and upper sanctum. All the 3 walls found in the eastern, northern and western direction consists of a corbelled arch. At the bottom of every corbelled arch there lies a window created to form 3 slits after keeping two bricks in a longitudinal way at a parallel distance. The facade faces south. On the top of the cornice there is a four-walled cube of the upper sanctum. Each side consists of a pair of false windows. Towards the south wall, there has been found a single rectangular, long and semi perforated window. The solidity of the walls found in the interior has blocked the holes. Hence the holes do not help to provide light to the hall of the sanctum. The roof on top of the upper Jangha is built in a style which is parabolic and is built into a domelike form accompanied by semicircular arches convergent at the base of protuberance.
There is a door opening in the sanctum hall which is square shaped and has a portico. The Garbha Griha is having three windows on north, west and east sides. The sanctum hall walls are straight pointing towards the neck in a perpendicular direction to step up the courses of layers of brick. The shrine entrance is through 2 plasters of a opening in the rectangular shape meant to carry a corbelled arch having niches and is attained through 14 brick layered courses.
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