[Hindī tōran:—Skr. toraṇa arched portal.] A sacred Buddhist gateway, of wood or stone, consisting of a pair of uprights with one or more (often three) cross-pieces; sometimes elaborately carved.
1886. E. C. Robins, Temple of Solomon (1887), 27. A design … based on the Japanese and Indian toran, like those forming gateways to the Great Tope at Sanchi.
