The Nagara temple
The North Indian temple: a curvilinear shikhara of storeys over the sanctum, rathas projecting on every face, mandapas and a terrace.
The rules it illustrates
Rathas: the plan in projecting planes. Break each face of the square sanctum into projections (rathas), three, five, seven or more, that step forward towards the central one, and carry them up unbroken through the wall and the tower.
The curvilinear shikhara in storeys. Raise over the sanctum a tower whose faces curve inward towards the top (rekha), divided into storeys (bhumis) that are marked on the corners by small ribbed discs (bhumi-amalakas).
Amalaka and kalasha. Crown the shikhara with a great ribbed stone disc, the amalaka, on a short neck, and set over it the kalasha, a water-pot finial.
Halls rising towards the sanctum. Lay the halls along the east–west axis in front of the sanctum (porch, hall, great hall, vestibule), each larger and more lofty than the one before, so that the roofs rise in a continuous range to the shikhara.
Towers clustered round the tower. Multiply the shikhara: attach smaller spires (urushringas) against its faces, and smaller ones again against those, so that the tower becomes a cluster of peaks.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Hindu Temple: Nagara (North Indian).
In the chapters South and Southeast Asia.