INDIAN KALINGA STYLE ARCHITECTURE OF ONE FAMOUS VAISHNAVA TEMPLE OF THE PURI DISTRICT IN ODISHA

Abstract

The aim of present article is to focus on the arts and architectures along with the religious significance of the famous Sakshi-Gopala temple of Satyabadi of the Puri district in Odisha. The craftsmanship and design of Vishnavite temples of Puri district are one of the significant pieces of the Hindu temple specialty of Odisha in Eastern India. Every one of the surviving sanctuaries of Puri district including the present Sakshi-Gopal temple have a place with the Kalinga style temple architecture of Odisha. The current temple of Sakshi-Gopala has been raised on the leftovers of the earlier little spot of love of that site. It addresses both the rekha and pidha kinds of the Kalinga Style temple architecture of Odisha in Eastern India. The temple contains three designs, viz, vimana, jagamohana and natamandapa. Indeed, the Sakshi-Gopal temple of Satyabadi is a notable Vaishnavite place of worship of the Puri area in Odisha thinking about its interesting religious importance. The imaginative and strict perspectives, the Sakshi-Gopal temple of Satyabadi is appealing to the explorers, researchers, workmanship history specialists and archaeologists. The earlier temple is known to have been implied the Maratha season of Odishan history. Before that the picture of Sakshi-Gopala was kept at places like Varanasi-Kataka, Rathipura Garh, Kantalabai near Chilika lake and inside the Jagannatha temple complex of Puri. After the Muslim triumph of Odisha, the picture Sakshi-Gopala was moved starting with one spot then onto the next and thus disposed of to the town of Alasa (the old name of Satyabadi) at the direction of one severe objected to Brahmachari. The image Sakshi-Gopala of Satyabadi is immovably associated with the Kanchi-Kaveri custom of Odisha. Methodologically, both the primary and secondary sources have been analyzed and used in this article.