点评:This Shiva temple, enshrining a linga, is the largest and the loftiest, monument of Khajuraho, measuring about 30.5m each in length and height and 20 m. in width, excluding the platform. Strikingly similar to the Visvanatha, it is much more magnificent, and its mature plan and design, its grand dimensions and symmetrical proportions, its superb sculptural embellishment and architectural elaboration-all mark it out at the most evolved and finished achievement of the central Indian building-style and one of the sublimes creations of Indian architecture. Decorated with graded series of smaller replicas of itself, totalling eighty-four, the grand sikhara of the Kandariya is a lofty pile, unified in theme and design. Like the other full developed temples of Khajuraho, this temple consists on plan entrance-porch, mandapa, maha-mandapa with lateral transepts. vestibule and sanctum o enclosed by an ambulatory with transepts on the sides and the rear. It presents each constituent element of the plan and elevation on a grand scale with considerable elaboration of design and ornamentation. Of all the Khajuraho temples, it has the loftiest basement with numerous elegantly ornamented mouldings, which include two rows of processional friezes. The largest number of sculptures of alluring beauty appears on the three bands of its wall. The interior of the Kandariya temple is largely similar in design to that of the developed local temples, but is more spacious and gorgeous and is replete with a lavish wealth of carvings and sculptures. The temple assignable to the eleventh century A.D., was most probably built by the Chaulleka king Vidyadhara. (Information from ASI)
翻译:这座供奉林伽的湿婆神庙是卡修拉荷最大、最宏伟的纪念碑,长、高各约 30.5 米,宽 20 米(不包括平台)。这座神庙与维斯瓦那塔神庙极为相似,但更加宏伟壮观,其成熟的规划和设计、宏伟的尺寸和对称的比例、精湛的雕塑装饰和建筑工艺——都标志着它是印度中部建筑风格最成熟、最完美的成就,也是印度建筑的崇高创作之一。坎达里亚的宏伟神庙装饰有一系列较小的复制品,总共 84 个,是一座宏伟的建筑,主题和设计统一。与卡修拉荷其他完整的神庙一样,这座神庙由平面入口门廊、曼达帕、大曼达帕和侧面横厅组成。前厅和圣殿被走廊包围,走廊两侧和后方有横厅。它以宏伟的规模展示了平面图和立面图的每个组成部分,设计和装饰都非常精致。在所有卡修拉荷神庙中,它的地下室最高,有许多装饰精美的线条,包括两排游行的雕带。墙上的三条带上出现了数量最多的迷人美丽的雕塑。坎达里亚神庙的内部设计与当地发达的神庙大致相似,但更宽敞、更华丽,充满了奢华的雕刻和雕塑。这座神庙建于公元 11 世纪,很可能是由 Chaulleka 国王 Vidyadhara 建造的。(信息来自 ASI)