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 56 - Paramaras of Candravati
This chapter describes Paramaras of Candravati located on page 243 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]
Most of the Paramara kings were Shaivite s and built several Shiva temples in different places. However, Vedic brahmanas held a high position in contemporary society, the King Vakpatiraja of Paramara dynasty issued three Copper Plate Inscriptions from Gaonri in c. 981 CE. It records the donation of seventy-eight parts of a village to twenty-six brahmanas. The brahmanas belonging to the gveda seemed to have received particular preference....
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Triveni Journal
The bloody and devastating wars of the period which his Chola, Chalukyu, Kalachuri and Paramara contempories intermittently waged, would seem to have caused immense grief and misery to Rajaraja. He resembled Yudhishtira who mourned the loss of all his beloved kinsmen and allies on the gruesome battlefield of Kurukshetra....
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