Nandadirghi Mahavihara: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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== Architecture ==

=== Site and plan ===

Although its excavated ruins cover an area of ​​only 9432 square meters today, the Nandadirghi Mahavihara occupied a much larger area during the medieval period.<ref name="telegraphindia1">{{cite news |last1=Datta |first1=Rangan |title=The story of a ninth-century Buddhist ‘vihara’ in Malda |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/a-history-lesson-at-the-pala-dynastys-ninth-century-buddhist-complex-of-nandadirghi-vihara-in-malda-that-was-discovered-thanks-to-a-copper-plate/cid/1857983 |access-date=28 September 2024 |work=The Telegraph |date=28 March 2022}}</ref> The mahavihara complex was surrounded by a moat, the ditch of which is extant today. Most of the area of ​​the complex is used as human settlement and agricultural land.<ref name="banglapedia">{{cite web |last1=Sengupta |first1=Gautam |title=Jagjivanpur - Banglapedia |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Jagjivanpur |website=en.banglapedia.org |access-date=28 September 2024 |language=en}}</ref>

=== Central structure ===

The Mahavihara structure is almost square, and consists of a tower chamber at each corner of the exterior and a square courtyard inside.{{sfn|Ghosh|1997|pp=132–134}} The courtyard was surrounded by paths adjacent to the [[Veranda|verandah]], which was constructed of [[tile|tiles]].{{sfn|Ghosh|1997|p=132}}