A type of Hindu temple architecture characterised by a door in each of the four cardinal directions of the sanctum. These temples were usually symmetrical on all sides, with the inner sanctum surrounded by a pillared hall, used for circumambulation. From the Sanskrit, meaning “auspicious on all sides.”
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