Jagati (temple)
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In Hindu temple architecture, the jagati is the raised surface of the platform or terrace upon which Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist temples are built.
Architecture of Khajuraho temples with the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple built on a jagati
Conjectural reconstruction of the wooden Temple 40, burnt down in the 2nd century BCE at Sanchi.
Symmetrical architecture on a jagati at Somanathapura
Parikrama
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Parikrama or Pradakshina is clockwise circumambulation of sacred entities, and the path along which this is performed, as practiced in the Indic religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. In
Jagati (temple)
…and Jainism. In some large temples, this circumambulation is also possible inside the temple along a walled passage around the shrine sanctum named pradakshina…
Buddhist monks performing Pradakshina ritual at Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia
Parikrama at the temple.
Buddhist monks and devotees circumambulating a stupa.
Pradakhshina round a stupa in China.