File:Surya temple, Telkupi West Bengal.jpg

English: This is a JPEG format plan and architectural drawing of a historic Indian temple or monument. An alternate SVG format (scalable vector graphics) version of this file – for web graphics, design studies, print, dynamic and interactive applications – has also been uploaded to wikimedia commons.

The drawing and location of the monument:

• The Hindu and Jain temples of Telkupi were located on the southern bank of Damodar river. It was a large group of temple ruins, partly under sand, covered with rubbish and vegetation, when they were rediscovered by Joseph Beglar in the 19th-century.

• Locally called Deul, these Nagara-style temples were originally dedicated to different Vedic, Vaishnava, Shaiva and Shakti deities. The floor plan above is for the Surya temple (number 7 temple in Beglar report).

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

23° 39′ 20.9″ N, 86° 36′ 10.4″ E

View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

23.655806; 86.602889

• The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible.

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