In Hindu temple architecture a sukanasa (Sanskrit: शुकनास, IAST: śukanāsa) or sukanasi is an external ornamented feature over the entrance to the garbhagriha...

(spire) is a northern Nagara style (Rekhanagara) with a sukanasa projection on the east. The sukanasa has a damaged Nataraja accompanied by Parvati. The outer...

temple on the hill. The temple features a garbhagriha, pradakshinapatha, sukanasa and a navranga joined by 16 pillars. the temple's front is joined with...

Kambha, Dhvajastambha, Kodimaram Manasara XV, Kaśyapa śilpa śāstra IX Sukanasa an external ornamented feature over the entrance to the garbhagriha or...

building its solidity and shape."[relevant?] There are generally prominent sukanasa projections from the tower on the roof over an antarala antechamber to...

amalaka disk-stone at the top, and then a kalasha urn. There is often a sukanasa feature over the entrance door. The forms with smaller subsidiary spires...

in the Thousand-Pillar-Hall of Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu Sukanasa with Shiva Nataraja in Pattadakal, Karnataka Khmer relief, 12th-century...

has one of the most beautifully embellished Hoysala tower projection (sukanasa) that integrates the Dravida motifs with asta-bhadra Bhumija motifs from...

tops each had a large stone kalasa, but these were damaged along with the sukanasa, and the temple was without them. A recent restoration replaced the missing...

and the Hindu Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh. Also in the 7th century, the sukanasa developed. This is a very large developed gavaksha motif fixed on the outside...