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 11 - Aulikaras. Mauryas, and minor Chieftains
This chapter describes Aulikaras. Mauryas, and minor Chieftains located on page 139 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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Temples in and around Madurantakam [by B. Mekala]
Political History (1): Mauryas. The political history of the district begun in the Third Century B. C. with the inclusion of Kancheepuram within the Mauryan Empire, built by Chandragupta Maurya which was in its hey-days during Ashoka the Great. , K. A. Nilakanda Sastri viewed that a part of the Tondaimandalam was included in the Mauryan Empire. The Velurpa!ayam Plates mentions one Asoka Varman among the earliest rulers of Kancheepuram. R....
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Triveni Journal
After the fall of Warangal to the hordes of Islam under the Tughlaks, a local chieftain of the coastal country, Kapayanayaka, gathered the erstwhile feudatories of the Kakatiya empire and won for a time the freedom of the land. This was prior to the much greater effort of Harihara and Bukka on the banks of the Tungabhadra....
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Pallava period (Social and Cultural History) [by S. Krishnamurthy]
Similar type, but with many ornamental flourishes can be seen worn by the king and his ministers or chieftains in the panels (fig. 144) adorning the Vaikunthaperumal temple at Kanchipuram. A circular turban with a flat top In a panel (lower row) on the northern cloister wall of the Vaikunthaperumal temple at Kanchipuram, a minister or chieftain (fig. 145 and 469), standing and viewing the coronation ceremony of the king is seen with a turban of this type....
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