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There's also a possibility that the shikhar here represents of Sky as the name suggests Ambarnath which means the Sky. अंबर in sanskrit is sky. So the shikhar here is sky and thus the tower might have not stopped abruptly.
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The mandapa has three porches. Much of the exterior figure carving is damaged, but some female and divine figures remain.
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form, and if completed would have been close in form to the Udayesvara Temple also known as Neelkantheshwara temple in
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at Sinnar. It is clear from what was built that the shikhara would have followed these in having four corner bands of
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tower above stops abruptly at a little above the height of the mandapa, and was apparently never completed. It is in
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Kanitkar, Kumud, "Ambarnath Shivalaya" A Monograph on the Temple at Ambarnath, Mumbai 2013, (
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is below ground, reached by some 20 steps down from the
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Buildings and structures completed in the 11th century
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The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
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Shiv Mandir, Ambernath


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Udaipur, Madhya Pradesh
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