D. Dayalan
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Contents: Part-1: 1. Introduction. 2. Historical Setting. 3. The Architectural Milleu and Ethos. 4. The Sculptural Style and Idiom. 5. Lower Rock-cut Cave- temple, Tiruvellarai. 6. Unfinished Rock-cut Cave-temple, Tiruvellarai. 7. Siva Cave-temple, Tirunvellarai. 8. Siva Cave-temple, Tiruppainjili. 9. Vishnu Cave-temple, Malaiyatippati. 10. Siva(Vagidvara) Cave- temple, Malaiyatippati. 11. Parvatagirisvarar Cave- temple, Kunnandarkoyil. 12. Vishnu Cave-temple, ...
This Birth Centenary Volume of Padma Bhushan Dr. C. Sivaramamurti and Padma Bhushan Shri K.R. Srinivasan is brought out by the admirers and students of them as a mark of reverence to these reputed savants. Their renowned scholarly contribution in the field of archaeology, literature, iconography, art and architecture for more than half a century is well known to the globe. Notwithstanding the felicitation volumes in honour of these distinguished scholars were ...
A miracle in marble! A dream in marble! A poem! Lavishly praised by countless critics, connoisseurs and commoners, the Taj Mahal has stayed as one of the world’s architectural wonders ever since the day of its completion in 1648. And is unmistakably one of the outstanding creations in the whole spectrum of Islamic architecture in India. For its richness, evocative aesthetic appeal and prodigiousness, it counts among man’s proudest creations. This ...
This Volume of selected essays comprises 12 papers, covering prehistory, proto-history, epigraphy, religion and art & architecture of India and abroad. The main aim of this book is to focus on the recent discovery of the author in Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh besides systematic and critical study of various academic components of archaeology. The Study on the memorial stone (Rune stone) in Sweden is an added attraction of the present work. This first article ...
It is indeed axiomatic that the written records form the skeletal element for reconstructing the political vicissitudes and cultural matrix of the land. However, the utilization of inscriptions as an adduce to substantiate the theories are quite often proved to be nebulous and arbitrary. The precocious notations bypassing the experimentation of browsing the entire gamut of historical records not only generate misconception in the mind of readers but also supply a ...
The monolithic temples are the most revolutionary architectural design in the whole spectrum of Indian art. Madhya Pradesh, being a meeting ground of different cultures, is endowed with three major monolithic creations in addition to one of elementary stage at Udaigiri and a number of miniature monolithic models of a little later period. The chief aim of this book is to focus the evolution, technique, architectural style and iconographio-religious perspective of ...