Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. building divisions
7. rooms and spaces
8. [rooms and spaces by building type]
9. religious building spaces
10. sanctuaries (religious building spaces)

Narrower term/s

• pañcatala
• caturmukha
• catustala
• bhadravimāna
• karṇavimāna
• lupā
• vimānākāra
• saptatala
• kūṭākāra-alpa
• ēkatala
• ṣaḍatala
• alpavimāna
• sabhadra vimāna
• rathākara
• tritala
• dvitala
• jāti-vimāna
• anarpita

Anotations

Scope note:

The sanctuaries of Indian temples. The term may be used for earlier Indian temples as a whole, including sanctuary and attached porches. In Dravidian, Karṇāṭan as well as early Indian architecture, the main temple-structure or shrine or prāsāda in a temple complex.