Kalinga Temple Architecture

Kalinga style is identified as a sub-class under the Nagara category. As the name suggests, this temple style was mostly confined within the then Kalinga region, present Odisha. N K Bose’s “Canons of Orissan Architecture” was a milestone in understanding the Kalinga temple architecture. Bhuvanapradipa was the main source of information for Bose’s study. It primarily defines three kinds of temple styles, Rekha, Khakhara and Bhadra. It further classifies thirty-six types of Rekha, five types of Bhadra and three type of Khakhara temples.