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===Māru-Gurjara architecture===
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[[File:Ranakpur Jain Temple Ceiling detail.jpg|thumb|Temple ceiling of Ranakpur Jain Temple, [[Rajasthan]]]]
Regional differences in Hindu temples are largely reflected in Jain ones, except that Māru-Gurjara architecture or the "Solanki style" has become to some extent a pan-Indian, indeed pan-global Jain style. This is a particular temple style from [[Gujarat]] and [[Rajasthan]] (both regions with a strong Jain presence) that originated in both Hindu and Jain temples around 1000, but became enduringly popular with Jain patrons, spreading to other parts of India and the global Jain [[diaspora]] of the last century. It has remained in use, in somewhat modified form, to the present day, indeed also becoming popular again for some Hindu temples in the last century. The style is seen in the groups of pilgrimage temples at [[Dilwara Temples|Dilwara]] on [[Mount Abu]], [[Taranga Jain temple|Taranga]], [[Girnar Jain temples|Girnar]] and [[Palitana temples|Palitana]].<ref>Hegewald</ref>

Interiors are more lavishly decorated, with elaborate carving on most surfaces. In particular, Jain temples often have small low domes carved on the inside with a highly intricate rosette design. Another distinctive feature is "flying" arch-like elements between pillars, touching the horizontal beam above in the centre, and elaborately carved. These have no structural function, and are purely decorative. The style developed large pillared halls, many open at the sides, with Jain temples often having one closed and two pillared halls in sequence on the main axis leading to the shrine.

The Māru-Gurjara style did not represent a radical break with earlier styles. The previous styles in north-west India, and the group of Jain temples of Khajuraho, forming part of the famous Khajuraho Group of Monuments are very largely in the same style as their Hindu companions, which were mostly built between 950 and 1050. They share many features with the Māru-Gurjara style: high plinths with many decorated bands on the walls, lavish figurative and decorative carving, balconies looking out on multiple sides, ceiling rosettes, and others, but at Khajuraho the great height of the shikharas is given more emphasis. There are similarities with the contemporary Hoysala architecture from much further south. In both of these styles architecture is treated sculpturally.
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File:Ranakpur (2155232277).jpg|Detailed carving of elephant, [[Ranakpur Jain temple|Ranakpur Jain Temple]]
File:RaniKiVav-Patan-Gujarat JM21.jpg|[[Rani ki vav|Rani Ki Vav, Gujarat]]
File:Somanath mandir (cropped).jpg|[[Somnath temple|Somanath Temple]]
File:Adalaj stepwell01.JPG|[[Adalaj Stepwell|Adalaj stepwell]]
File:Taranga Temple 2017.jpg|[[Taranga Jain temple|Taranga Jain Temple, Gujarat]]
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