Middle Chola Temples
Author: S. R. Balasubrahmanyam
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: S. R. Balasubrahmanyam
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Balasubrahmanyam Venkataraman
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study of the contributions of the queens of a medieval South Indian dynasty to the development of temple architecture, art, and sculpture.
Author: Vidya Dehejia
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-10-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0691253064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as “the thief who stole my heart”—were adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book, leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities, proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the Chola empire’s political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the Cholas’ religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete immersion in a community still accessible to us through its exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Author: Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1400860067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of the first popular large-scale devotional movements within Hinduism. Indira Peterson eloquently renders into English a substantial portion of these hymns, which provide vivid and moving portraits of the images, myths, rites, and adoration of Siva and which continue to be loved and sung by the millions of followers of the Tamil Saiva tradition. Her introduction and annotations illuminate the work's literary, religious, and cultural contexts, making this anthology a rich sourcebook for the study of South Indian popular religion. Indira Peterson highlights the Tevaram as a seminal text in Tamil cultural history, a synthesis of pan-Indian and Tamil civilization, as well as a distinctly Tamil expression of the love of song, sacred landscape, and ceremonial religion. Her discussion of this work draws on her pioneering research into the performance of the hymns and their relation to the art and ritual of the South Indian temple. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: C. Sivaramamurti
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the architecture of three medieval Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu.
Author: Kanakalatha Mukund
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-05-22
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 8184756127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did the Tamil merchant become India's first link to the outside world? The tale of the Tamil merchant is a fascinating story of the adventure of commerce in the ancient and early medieval periods in India. The early medieval period saw an economic structure dominated by the rise of powerful Tamil empires under the Pallava and Chola dynasties. This book marks the many significant ways in which the Tamil merchants impacted the political and economic development of south India.
Author: Y. Subbarayalu
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2011-12-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780198077350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume deals with different aspects of state-society interactions in medieval south India, especially under the Cholas. It discusses the nature of the state, revenue system, local governance bodies, land rights, along with trade, merchant guilds, and maritime trade.