Temples at Mari Indus

There are two temples at Mari Indus while the third one has fallen down long ago. The temple A at Mari has pseudo- Corinthian pilasters on the corners of each offset, with a broad thin bracket above with tiny volutes. There is a saw tooth fringe at the top of wall frieze, a recessed rosette-ornamented band beneath the superstructure with floriated beam ends marking corners of each offsets. The base mouldings have a broad recess ornamented with foliated diamonds. Candrasalas making up the web of the superstructure have rosette filling their opening. Shrine model at the corner of each wall frame sunk cellas with offset doorways. The porticoes suggest trefoil vaulting.. Temple B at Mari, uses curvilinear Nagara Model with ornamentation placed across single cornice layers. On the 10th century temple at Malot, the central shrine model have developed curvilinear Nagara towers flanked by extra turrets. Mari’s temple E had central niches marked by a split pent-roof pediment framing a trefoil arch that suggest the gable pent roof that once actually crowned the temple at Malot.