Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture - North and South India
author: Michael W. Meister
edition: 1986, American Institute of Indian Studies
pages: 6147
Topic: History
Chapter 49 - Later Pratiharas of Kanauj
This chapter describes Later Pratiharas of Kanauj located on page 83 in the book Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture (North and South India) compiled by Michael W. Meister, George Michell and M. A. Dhaky. These books deal with Indian temples from the early centuries. South India developed the Dravidian style while North India expressed symbolic experimentation of the divine manifestation.
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Impact of Vedic Culture on Society [by Kaushik Acharya]
The Gurjara-Pratihara s became the most powerful dynasty in northern India under Nagabhata II. He built many elegant temples at Saurastra, Kanauj and other places. Thus it goes without any doubt that the Pratihara kings were followers of Brahmanism. The epigraphic records show that the structure of temples and the educational institutions attached to them formed community projects, in which the entire village community participated....
Read full contents: Mingling of Cultures (K): The Gurjara Pratiharas
Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
In the second place sastri says that in the stupa area of Nalanda three little stone stupas were built between 869- 908during the time of Mahendrapala-the son and successor of the famous Pratihara king of Kanauj-Bhoja. They bear Sanskrit inscriptions of early Nagari script. The portion reading the Buddhist formula remained undeciphered but the more useful part clearly records the construction of chaitya in the reign of Mahendrapaladeva, though did not specify any date....
Read full contents: Part 7 - Nalanda’s Rise of a Multi-functional Nodal Centre
A Historical Study of Kaushambi [by Nirja Sharma]
D. ), records the grant of the village of Payalasa (modern Pras) ‘in the Kausamba-mandala to one Mathura-vikaia of Pabhosa together with its customary duties, royalties, taxes, gold and tithes in perpetuity to his descendants by Maha-Rajadhiraj Yasahpala who was the last Pratihara king of Kanauj. The history of Vatsa or the country of Kaushambi as a political with the rule of Yasahpiila of Kanauj. (* 1) For the close connection between the two....
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