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 29 - Gangas of Talkad
This chapter describes Gangas of Talkad located on page 185 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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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
Buddhism under the Ganga s reign. [Full title: Political and Religious History of Orissa (15): Buddhism under the Ganga s ] After the Somavamsis s Buddhism was in a declining phase. The successors of the Somavamsis were the Gangas in the second decade of the twelfth century CE and they ruled till the fifteenth century CE. The Korni plates of Chodagangadeva dated to Saka year 1034 (1112 CE) reveal that he re-established the Lord of Utkala who is identified with Karnadeva....
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
Sharma, The Varna and State Formation in the mid-Ganga Plains: An Ethnoarchaeological View, New Delhi, Manohar, 2001, p.68...
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Pallava period (Social and Cultural History) [by S. Krishnamurthy]
From the Hosakote plates of Ganga king Avinita, it is known that the mother of Simhavishnu was a Ganga princess. But this matrimonial relationship between the Pallavas and the Gangas seems to have turned into a calamity for Simhavishnu, as he was forced to interfere into the politics of war of succession in the Ganga family, which emerged soon after the death of Avinita....
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