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<p>Created basic location basic info!</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Hindu temple in India}}<br /> [[File:Buddhist pillared temple in Nair between Patna and Gaya.jpg|thumb|Pillared temple in Nair between [[Patna]] and [[Gaya, India|Gaya]], with pillar capital arrangement.]]<br /> [[File:Nair temple side.jpg|thumb|Side of the temple portico, with mound of the crumbled structure.]]<br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Nair temple&#039;&#039;&#039; is a ruined pillared temple at the location of Nair, on the road between [[Patna]] and [[Gaya, India|Gaya]], west of [[Dharawat]]. It is about 20 miles from Gaya.&lt;ref name=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho0000125s1u00065000.html British Library Online]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> The temple consists of three rows of monolithic pillars, ten pillars in each row. In the front of the temple there is a further row of four pillars.&lt;ref name=&quot;auto&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> According to Thomas Fraser Peppé, who photographed it in 1870: &quot;The temple behind consists of brick and mud cement, but very little of it is now standing; the superstructure is entirely gone, and none of the temples of this form are sufficiently complete to allow a conjecture as to their original form. The roof of the portico and the shrine is composed of large granite slabs, a linga now occupies the shrine, and there is a mutilated figure of [[Ganesh]] lying outside. Judging by the size of the mound, and the part of the shrine remaining, the temple must have been a lofty one...&quot;.&lt;ref name=&quot;auto&quot;/&gt;<br /> <br /> The pillars are made of [[granite]] in one block. They form a portico which is still standing in front of the temple.&lt;ref&gt;[https://books.google.com/books?id=MENQAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA50 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 35, Partie 1, p.50]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> This temple is said to be similar to the temple of Poonawa, 14 miles east of Gaya.&lt;ref&gt;[https://books.google.com/books?id=MENQAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA59 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 35, Partie 1, p.59]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{coord missing|Bihar}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Shiva temples in Bihar]]</div>

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