English: This is a JPEG format plan and architectural drawing of a historic Indian temple or monument. An alternate SVG format (scalable vector graphics) version of this file – for web graphics, design studies, print, dynamic and interactive applications – has also been uploaded to wikimedia commons.

The drawing:

• Mandore, also spelled Mandor, is about 10 kilometers north of Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It was the ancient capital of Marwar, and is called Maddodara and Mandavyapuradurga in historic texts of Hindus and Jains. In Nahadarao nearby, Brahmi inscriptions in Gupta era style have been found, which confirms that this site was important by or before the 4th-century CE. It was where the hermitage of Mandavya rishi, a revered sage, was.

• Mandore had numerous Hindu and Jain temples inside and outside the fort. The most notable temples here were built by the Naga and the Pratihara dynasties. The Pratiharas of Mandor were linked to the Pratiharas of Kanauj. This site prospered for its local Hindu and Jain communities through the early 14th-century. Thereafter, it was invaded and plundered by Sultan Firoz Shah of Delhi Sultanate. He destroyed temples and images here. He also founded a mosque here, according to a Persian inscription on a broken slab. See K.C. Jain, History of Mandor, JSTOR 44304298 for more details.

• The site has ruins and foundations of many temples. One of the most interesting is what early archaeologists have called the Visnu temple of Mandor, and which the local museum and ASI calls "Brahma temples complex".

• This is the floor plan of the ASI's "Brahma temple complex", (or the Vishnu temple of Mandor in literature).

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

26° 21′ 13.5″ N, 73° 01′ 59″ E

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26.353750; 73.033056

• The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible.

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