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Top Khan complex, Pinjore

Tope Dwar is a large gateway constitutes arched openings on either side of a central passage. The main archway is flanked by two projecting pavilions supported on brackets. A band of crenellations run at the top level indicating the role of the gateway as a part of walled enclosure. The structure is constructed of brick and plastered over. This structure is in a poor state of preservation.

The well is named after the carved archway (toran). The brackets are decorated with birds and flower motifs and kirtimukha. Two registers of niches line the interior of the well. Most of the carved deities survive intact. A pair of niches house the deities Shiva and Ganesha that are encased in foil.

 

Lautman, Victoria, The Vanishing Stepwells of India, 2017, 180-181.

Kiri Torana is one of the two toranas that is upright now; the fragments of the other one lie in the vicinity. The two toranas were identical in size and style and may have belonged to a very large temple complex at one point. The corbelled projections uphold maiden. There is an image of Shiva at the center of the pediment.

 
Dhar, Parul P. The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture, 164, 166

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