INDIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF SOME MINOR TEMPLES INSIDE THE LORD JAGANNATHA TEMPLE COMPLEX OF PURI IN ODISHA

Abstract

Puri is famous for the seat of Lord Jagannatha  and it is well known as the place of Hindu monuments of Odisha in Eastern India. The artistic technique and architectural designs of some minor temples noticed inside the Jagannatha temple premises of Puri are the integral parts of the Hindu temple art of Odisha. Most of the earlier art historians and senior scholars had traced the artistic features of the Lord Jagannatha temple of Puri. All the extant temples of Puri town including the minor temples of the Jagannatha temple complex belong to the Kalinga style temple architecture of Odisha. Some of the minor temples of the Puri Jagannatha temple complex have to be discussed here are 1. Kshetrapala Mahadeva temple , 2. Baikuntheshvara temple, 3. Sarva-Mangala temple , 4. Indrani temple, 5. Navagraha temple, etc. The aim of this article has to focus on the artistic designs, architectural features along with the religious significance of the above minor temples of the Jagannatha temple complex of Puri of Odisha in Eastern India. Methodologically, both the primary and secondary sources have been used in this article.