Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Siddham calligraphy
This chapter describes Siddham calligraphy located on page 79 of volume Volume 6 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 6 includes studies that have been finalised during the last five years. The first chapter deals with pensive images seated in half-locked posture (hankaza) found in China, Korea and Japan.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Siddham calligraphy. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Triveni Journal
But by the time Islamic calligraphy was practised in the Moghal courts in India, the prohibition of the depiction of living beings was no more alive and that was why both the art of painting depicting the living beings and the art of calligraphy were simultaneously practised in Moghal courts with equal zeal by the talented painters and the deft scribes respectively. Babur was not only interested in appreciating the art of calligraphy but also versed in creating that of calligraphy....
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Sripura (Archaeological Survey) [by Bikash Chandra Pradhan]
The Mangalacaranam constitutes only the symbol of “Siddha [Siddham]”, followed by the mention of the place of issue (Sripura), which in its turn, is followed by a long prose passage of eulogy of the king. The notification part, which comes next, carries the king s order in respect of the land-grant, which is usually addressed to the inhabitants of the donated village....
Read full contents: Copper Plate Inscriptions: Salient Features
Jainism in Odisha (Orissa) [by Ashis Ranjan Sahoo]
But, it appears to be written by a different hand as the calligraphy style differs in both the inscriptions. (d) Inscription in a Chaumukha, Kartara, Jajpur The Jaina chaumukha is placed in front of a Budhi Jagulei shrine whose presiding deity is none other than an image of Ambika. The chaumukha is fashioned in form of a miniature tri-ratha rekha style temple out of a single khandolite stone block. The votive temple is buried up to its half of bada portion....
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