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{{Infobox Hindu temple
| name = Trivikrama Temple
| image = Trivikram Temple Ter 1.jpg
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| caption = Trivikrama Temple (front)
| map_type = India#India Maharashtra
| map_caption = Location within [[Maharashtra]]

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| country = {{flag|India}}
| state = [[Maharashtra]]
| district = [[Osmanabad district|Osmanabad]]
| locale = [[Ter, Maharashtra]]
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The '''Trivikrama Temple''', also named '''Ter Temple''', is a temple of Vamana (an incarnation of Vishnu) in [[Ter, Maharashtra]]. [[Henry Cousins]] believed that it was originally a Buddhist temple, however Mate has disputed the view.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/42930775 THE TRIVIKRAM TEMPLE AT TER, M. S. Mate, Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Vol. 18, TARAPOREWALA MEMORIAL VOLUME (January 1957), pp. 1-4]</ref>

The temple is original in that it was initially based on a free-standing [[apsidal]] structure, now located at the back of the building, which is characteristic of early Buddhist apsidal ''[[caityagriha]]'' designs.<ref name=BA>{{cite book |last1=Le |first1=Huu Phuoc |title=Buddhist Architecture |date=2010 |publisher=Grafikol |isbn=9780984404308 |page=237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jb364g4BvoC&pg=PA237 |language=en}}</ref> The apsidal structure seems to be contemporary to the great apsidal temple found in [[Sirkap]], [[Taxila]], which is dated to 30 BCE-50 CE.<ref name=BA/> It would have been built under the [[Satavahanas]], in the 2nd or 3rd century CE.<ref name=GM/>

The external flat-roofed [[mandapa]] structure is probably only an addition from the 6th century CE, when the temple was converted into a Hindu temple.<ref name=BA/> A stone image of [[Trivikrama]] probably dates to the early [[Chalukyas]].<ref name=GM/>

The front of the apsidal temple is decorated with a [[chaitya]]-arch, similar to those found in [[Indian rock-cut architecture|Buddhist rock-cut architecture]].<ref name=BA/>

Another known Hindu temple constructed in a Chaitya-style, is the Pallava period Kapoteswara temple at [[Chejerla, Guntur district|Chezarla]] in [[Guntur district]]. The legend behind the deity Kapoteswara is the story of Sibi in [[Mahabharata]] which also occurs in [[Sibi Jataka]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ahir |first1=D. C. |title=Buddhism in South India |date=1992 |publisher=South Asia Books |isbn=9788170303329 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WH0EAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref>

The Trivikrama Temple is considered as the oldest standing structure in Maharashtra.<ref name=GM>{{cite book |last1=Michell |first1=George |title=Southern India: A Guide to Monuments Sites & Museums |date=2013 |publisher=Roli Books Private Limited |isbn=9788174369031 |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdBbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT142 |language=en}}</ref>

{{commons category|Trivikram temple}}
<gallery>
File:Trivikram_Temple_Ter_2.jpg|Side view
File:Trivikram_Temple_Ter_3.jpg|View of the upper part of the temple
Trivikrama Temple plan.jpg|Plan and elevation of the Trivikrama Temple.
Temple of Trivikrama at Ter.jpg|Reconstitution of the original Buddhist apsidal temple.
File:Ter ancient Buddhist Chaitya House.jpg|The ancient Buddhist chaitya house at Ter.
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Architecture of India]]

==References==
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{{Hindu temples in Maharashtra}}

[[Category:Hindu temples in Maharashtra]]
[[mr:त्रिविक्रम मंदिर, तेर]]

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