Learning about Indian temples with India Tour Packages

An ancient culture India that has a civilization and culture of thousand years could be better understood from its temple tours.  Indian temples, a place of worship for its majority group Hindu are scattered across from north of India to south of India that you can see on India tour packages. However, a better view of Indian temples could even be better assessed and analyzed with South India temple tour on Kerala Backwater tours as well.             

Birla Temple Delhi

A structure of Hindu temples is mostly made on the basis of its believes rooted deeper somewhere in Vedic traditions and cultures.  A layout of the Hindu temple illustrates the ancient rituals, beliefs and values related to the various schools of Hinduism.        

On an elaborate manner while visiting Indian temples on India tour packages you will find them to be made in different styles, diverse locations in different construction methods and manners in praise of various deities and regional beliefs.

Chamundeswari Temple 

In form of Indian architecture for Hindu temple generally has two forms as house and palace. House based architecture of the temple is generally consisted of simple shelter that is a deity’s home where a devotee can go and worship as he is visiting a house or a palace. Whereas the palace themed temples are more elaborate and made of monumental type of structure and architecture.

Meenakshi Temple

On India tour packages tour you will find Hindu temples to be constructed according to set believes near water bodies surrounded by natural beauty. Most of the south Indian temple that you even watch on India group tours is similar to this. You will also see them at confluence of rivers, river banks, lakes and seashore.  Moreover they are constructed inside caves and carved stones, on hill tops affording peaceful views, mountain slopes overlooking beautiful valleys, inside forests and hermitages, next to gardens, or at the head of a town street.

Khajarho Temple

There exist an entire art and discipline on making temples known to be as Vastu-Sastras thus a temple design follow the rules and principles derived from vastu-purusha-mandala. Mandala means circle, Purusha is universal essence at the core of Hindu tradition and Vastu refers to the dwelling structure.

A Hindu temple mostly has a Shikhara (Vimana or Spire) that rises symmetrically above the central core of the temple and can be found at temple top in many design and forms. In very large temple that you will frequently visit in south India on India tour packages or on Kerala Backwaters tours there exist pillared halls known to be as mandapa.  One on the east side of the temples they are made for the waiting room for pilgrims and devotees. In older temples mandapa happens to be a separate structure whereas in newer temples this space has been integrated into temple structure.