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.

The drawing:

• This is the floor plan of the Vyagreswari temple (many phonetic spellings, also called Kshemankari Mandir).

• The Vyaghresvari temple is in the south part of Dhinoj, Patan district, Gujarat to the southeast side of the manmade lake and step wells (the supply sluice that fed these has been built over, and is now lost). Dhinoj is northwest of Mehsana, near Patan.

• The temple is dedicated to a Hindu goddess popular with goldsmiths in the region. It was badly damaged and mutilated during the Hindu-Muslim wars in the Sultanate period of Gujarat's history. It has been largely restored from the structures that survived. The temple is notable for its rich, intricate carving of Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism legends. It has a Nagara superstructure with a dome above the open mandapa – an architecture that can be traced to 9th to 11th-century period in Karnataka, Maharashtara, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

૨૩° ૩૯′ ૨૫.૯″ N, ૭૨° ૧૬′ ૪૪.૨″ E

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23.657194; 72.278944

• 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. The drawing uses information and ground plan published in 1903 by Jas Burgess and Henry Cousens in Archaeological Survey of Western India Volume IX" (Plates XCVI – XCVII), and which is in public domain.

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