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 57 - Period of Vijayanagara Domination
This chapter describes Period of Vijayanagara Domination located on page 219 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
Subba Rao s ‘Hampi Kshetram is a series of cameos of life in Vijayanagara–the Court, the monarchs and marshals, the poets and artists. The memory of Vijayanagara under Krishna Raya and Timmarasu is enshrined by Subba Rao in poetry that will live as long as Telugu lives. The ‘Rashtra Ganamu of Tummala Sitaramamurti Chowdari is a beautiful epitome of the patriotic feelings of the Andhras and of their dreams for the future. The coming of Gandhi was a great event in Andhra s cultural life....
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Temples of Munnur (Historical Study) [by R. Muthuraman]
A relief sculpture of this God is executed on the lower saduram (square) of a Vijayanagara pillar. He is shown in a standing posture with his right arm palm raised while his left arm holding his left thigh. His tail is also shown raised and whirled round his right side and head. Hara is with beads. Kuntala flings on to his ears with pendant ear lobes. (* 1) C. Carven Roy, Indian Art, London, 1976, p. 157....
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Temples in and around Madurantakam [by B. Mekala]
Their domination over Tondainadu was ended by Sivaskanda Varman temporarily by about the middle of the Third Century A. D. There had been frequent skirmishes between the Pallavas and the Kalabhras in and around Kancheepuram. Finally, Pallava Simhavishnu put an end to the Kalabhra rule in Tondainadu in the latter half of the Sixth Century. (* 1) Arunachalam, M. , The Kalabhras in the Pandya Country and Their Impact on the Life and Letters There, University of Madras, Madras, 1979, p. 63....
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