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Definition of Gopuras
1. gopura [n] - See also: gopura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gopuras
Literary usage of Gopuras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-wheel Among the Temples by William Hunter Workman, Fanny Bullock Workman (1904)
"... about our Christian Servant—Features of the Mysore Plateau—Bangalore—The
Beautiful gopuras at ..."
2. Quaint Corner of Ancient Empires: Southern India, Burma, and Manila by Michael Myers Shoemaker (1899)
"... the Peoples of India—The Approach to Madura —The Feast to Shiva—The gopuras—Courts,
Sanctuaries— "Tank of the Golden Lilies" and the Starving Queen—The ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Successive enlargements have in some cases surrounded the earliest enclosure with
one or more outer walls, each with its gopuras. In the inmost enclosure is ..."
4. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1876)
"Each, however, has, or was intended to have, four gopuras, one on each fac«, and
some of these are of very considerable magnificence. ..."
5. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1850)
"This however may be said to be rather the exception than the rule; the temple
being complete with three courts and seven gopuras. There is however another ..."
6. Annual Report of the Archaeological Department, Southern Circle, Madras by Archaeological Survey of India (1903)
"The other three gopuras of this enclosure are in the same style, ... Had the four
great outer gopuras formed the four sides of a central hall, ..."
7. The Nineteenth Century (1891)
"The ancient and venerated temple of Chidambaram, with its gopuras or gateways;
the elegant temple of Parvati, and the magnificent hall of 1000 columns; ..."
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