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[[File:Bhuvaneswar.jpg|thumb|The jagamohana in front of the [[shikhara]], [[Mukteshvara Temple, Bhubaneswar|Mukteshvara Temple]], [[Bhuvaneswar]]|260x260px]]{{Short description|Hindu architectural feature}}
[[File:Konarak-jagamohan.jpg|thumb|The jagamohana of the Konarka Sun Temple]]

A '''Jagamohana''' ({{Langx|sa|जगमोहन|translit=jagamōhana}}),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmqADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 |title=Orissa Society of Americas 25th Annual Convention Souvenir: For Annual Convention Held in 1994 at Pamona, New Jersey |publisher=Odisha Society of the Americas |pages=31 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Menon |first=Usha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_VA_AAAAQBAJ&dq=jagamohana+temple&pg=PA32 |title=Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town |date=2013-03-01 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-81-322-0885-3 |pages=32 |language=en}}</ref> also rendered '''Jagamohana''' ({{langx|or|ଜଗମୋହନ}}) is an assembly hall<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kulke |first1=Hermann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yPlUEAAAQBAJ&dq=jagamohana+hall&pg=PA487 |title=The Routledge Handbook of the State in Premodern India |last2=Sahu |first2=Bhairabi Prasad |date=2022-01-13 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-48514-1 |pages=487 |language=en}}</ref> in [[Hindu temple architecture]], especially found in the region of [[Odisha]].<ref name="Inde">{{cite book
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| last= Volwahsen
| year= 1968
| title= Inde bouddhique, hindoue, jaïn
| series= Architecture universelle
| publisher= Office du Livre, Fribourg
| location= Fribourg, Switzerland
| language= French
| isbn=
|pages=50–57}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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|title=Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent - Glossary
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306200130/http://www.indoarch.org/arch_glossary.php
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==Overview==
A jagamohana is located in front of the main shrine of the temple, called the [[garbhagriha]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boner |first=Alice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=doQLZ21CGScC&pg=PA253 |title=Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture: Cave Temple Period |date=1990 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-0705-1 |pages=253 |language=en}}</ref> It is typical of the [[Nagara architecture]] temples of northern India. In the south of India, the halls are named ''[[mandapa]]s,'' which are often large halls with columns.

As in a garbhagriha, it is most often built on a plan based on structures of squares and circles. However, for the temples of goddesses, the jagamohana is built on a plan based on structures of rectangles and triangles. Such as for example the plan of the temple of [[Varahi Deula, Chaurasi|Varahi Deula]] at Chaurasi near [[Puri]] in Odisha.<ref name=Inde/>

Generally, the garbhagriha is a windowless and sparsely lit chamber, intentionally created thus to focus the devotee's mind on the tangible form of the divine within it. On the contrary, the jagamohana is highly decorated with sculptures of deities, mythological scenes, or ornaments.

The most famous jagamohana is that of the [[Konark Sun Temple]]. Due to the collapse of the main temple tower ([[shikhara]]), the jagamohana now appears to be the main building of the temple.

==References==
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[[Category:Architecture in India]]
[[Category:Hindu temple architecture]]

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