File:6th century Dasavatara Hindu temple, Deogarh Uttar Pradesh.svg

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The drawing:

• This is the floor plan of the Hindu temple in Deogarh, also spelled Devgarh, in the Betwa River valley at the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

• The temple is from the Gupta Empire era, and generally dated around 500 CE to early 6th-century. It is one of the earliest Hindu stone temples still surviving today. Prior temples were built from bricks or wood or combinations thereof, and those have not survived.

• The temple's architectural plan is a simple, one cell square, follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

  24° 31′ 36.8″ N, 78° 14′ 24″ E

  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

  24.526889; 78.240000

• 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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