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Pabbar valley has rich possibilities of research in archaeology ethnology art architecture and cultural traditions. The countryside in the valley is agricultural with well laid apple orchards on the arable mountain slopes. The deep forests of cedar and oak, the heights crowded with snow temples adorned with fascinating craftsmanship, art and crafts, fair and festivals that are the nerve centers of the religious and cultural life of the inhabitants. The present ...
This book attempts to survey and document in a systematic manner almost all the stone temples of Chamba. This will satisfy the enquiries of many researchers, outside visitors and the public in general who are interested in cultural heritage of Chamba particularly in the temple architecture and especially in those temples for which no information is available.
The first part of the book deals with stone temples. These temples were personally examined by the ...
The fountain stone slabs of Chamba present a strange and unique chapter in the history of Indian Art. For nowhere else they are found in such large number near the fountain and the springs and nowhere else they are decorated with such motifs as drawn from Early Buddhist as well as from the classical and medieval art of India. Thematically the fountain stone slabs of Chamba may commemorate the dead but geographically they mark the holly site of water. The marking ...