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 55 - Samas of Kaccha: Phase II
This chapter describes Samas of Kaccha: Phase II located on page 229 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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Triveni Journal
It says that “Etat Sama Gayan As the” – he abideth singing this Sama. The Taittiriya is a Yajur one, but the realised soul bursts out into a measured Sama song. The songs of Sadasiva are Sama in this sense; he too “Etat Sama Gayan Aseet” – he lived murmuring these melodious songs, as the cuckoos and blackbirds do. Song 4 declares: “I am pure intelligence, full and perfect. I am above the castes and the duties enjoined upon them. Like gold, I have been shaped into all this universe....
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
In the third phase the structure was further heightened by putting mud filling. A kaccha drain passing close to a soak pit also belongs to this phase. Later the drain was filled up and it fell into disuse. As against this view that it was an embankment it has been proposed that even during the devastating flood in 1978, no area in the mound I of Varanasi seemed to be threatened by the flood....
Read full contents: Part 11 - Enclosure of the Settlement of Varanasi
List of Mahabharata tribes [by Laxman Burdak]
Kaksha (kaksha)/ (Kaccha) (kaccha) - Both Kaksha and Kaccha are mentioned twice in the 'geography' (VI. 10.47 and 55), and denote the dry grasslands of the Rann of Kutch, being mentioned between Dvaipeya and Samudra niskuta (people living on the sea-shore)....
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