File:Floor plan of the Parasurameswara Swamy temple, Gudimallam Andhra Pradesh.jpg

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The floor plan of the temple with Gudimallam lingam, apsidal sanctum, square mandapa

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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.

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  • This is the floor plan of the temple.
  • This is the temple that contains one of the world's oldest known Shiva lingam, and the oldest largest lingam.
  • The sanctum of the Parasurameswara temple has a square plan embedded in an apsidal structure. The apsidal section is the most ancient part of the temple. It was rebuilt, extended and expanded over the centuries as attested by many inscriptions found inside the temple such as along the apisidal wall, as well as those outside. The inscriptions call it the Parasurameswara temple.
  • This is one of many apsidal Hindu temples discovered in different parts of Asia. The apsidal temples typically date before the 7th-century in most parts of India. The Shiva lingam here and the earliest layer of this temple in Gudimallam village is variously dated between the 3rd-century BCE to 4th-century CE.
  • The temple's architectural plan follows the apsidal, square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.
  • GPS location of the monument:
13° 36′ 12.3″ N, 79° 34′ 36.4″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
  • 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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