Vol. 9, Issue 11, Part D (2023)

The concept of ‘cenotaph’ has been inspiring and impinging practice in the shape of Art and Architectural mound building in Northern India. From ancient time numerous large monuments of stone been built for funeral and cult purpose. In India from ‘Vedic era’ andesite ceremony be designed in raising of a mound was an essential part of this system, result of the intermingling of the races and the culture traits of Northern India.

The historical development of the 19^th century and 20^th century an artistic building in the name of chhatri/ Samadhi being observed on the name of customs and religion. These cenotaphs have been keeping the aesthetics as well as utilities, qualities over the time periods. Fresco painting design, relief motifs, stone carvings, stucco designs and structural composition, art and architectural components which are memorial construction in the form of chhatri (cenotaph). The aesthetics is identified with the useful trend that seem up the experience of super consciousness. The artistic structure of the architecture and its aesthetics consider it the sphere of purely spiritual for humanity which establish its universal, historical, and cultural values. In modern time there is no practical utility of these chhatri building but still have aesthetics value as an artistic composition its own attraction. This paper will focus numerous artistic elements and its aesthetic value with the theory of Kant.