These are photographs of English commemorative board and ancient Garuda Brahma Temple located at Alampur, India. English commemoratives board provides this historical information about Garuda Brahma Temple Alampur:
"Garuda Brahma Temple Alampur
This temple was built during the time of Vijayaditya (848-891 A. D) and essentially follows the model of the Svarga Brahma wall design and the ground plan are discernable. On plan the introduction of deep offsets and recesses in the Garbha-Griha, the expansive Gudhamandapa with additional row of pillars in the aisle part are noteworthy. While the base remains to be of Vedibandha, the wall adopts more niches and introduces pillarets in the niches, a feature unique in early Chalukyan architecture.
The temple has a mandapa with a double row of pillars, each rising from a purnaghata and topped by a medallion, and spacious Artha. Mandapa on its three sides, the principal doorway has Ganga and Yamuna and door-keepers and beautiful executed Chambra, and Grahinis. Its lintel has a Garuda having the God Vishnu aloft, a motif repeated on the top of the entrance of the sanctum. The outer walls of the shrine are finely carved Yaksha Gandharrva Mithunas typically Chalukyan, projects Nataraja in its Chaitya arch.
Superintending Archeologist Archeological Survey of India Hyderabad Circle. "
Photographs gifted by Mr. Inderjeet Singh Sahib
Sources:
1- Commemorative board
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