Sentence examples for palatial temple from inspiring English sources
The palatial temple crumbles, all die, and Solor in death is forever reunited with his bayadère.
The new Kumari, or living goddess, was carried from her parents' home to an ancient palatial temple in Katmandu, the capital, where she will live until she reaches puberty and loses her divine status.
The palatial 12th-century Hindu temple, shrouded in the jungles of Cambodia, has played host to a thriving community of cyanobacteria ever since unsightly lichens were cleaned off its walls nearly 20 years ago.
3c85274e-fd70-4dfd-bdaf-51f4a2206b77 Georgetown, the capital of Pulau Penang (Penang Island) in Malaysia became a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008, preserving an area that holds the largest number of pre-war buildings in Southeast Asia – louvered shop houses, white colonial buildings, gold leaf-encrusted Chinese temples and palatial mosques.
There is a wooden temple in its palatial air shaft and a room crammed mostly with porcelain.
Besides the singing in temples and during festivals, the palatial houses lining the Ganges each kept its own player of the shenai, an oboe-like instrument whose piercing music would haunt the ghats along the river in the early morning and evening.
Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
In more palatial buildings, however, and commonly in both Hindu and Buddhist temples, walls were painted, a practice that, according to literary references, may go back to the Maurya period (c. 321 185 bce).
The temples of the main gods, smaller in size, were built within the palatial rectangle, which was surrounded by a special wall.
