Showing posts with label PK2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PK2014. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 10 Art of the Pandyas

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The Pandyan dynasty ruled from Madurai, for nearly two thousand years, in some form or another. In the Sangam age, they had contacts with ...
Monday, 7 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 9 Temporal seat of authority

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Organization of space and volume are examined, to study location of temporal authority in rural and urban settlements, in ancient Tamil coun...
Sunday, 6 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 8 Pallava Influence on Chalukya Art

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Vikaramaditya Chalukya Kannada inscription Kanchi Kailasanatha temple Photo: Swaminathan Natarajan An inscription of Chalukya Vikramaditya o...
Saturday, 5 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 7 Dolmens: Hero Stones

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Dolmens, cairn circles, hero stones are megalithic burial sites seen all over Tamilnadu. Dolmens go by various names like Vaaliyaar veedu, k...
Friday, 4 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 6 Temples of Village Gods

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Village shrine under a tree (near Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu) Village temples in India owe their origin to tribal belief in nature spirits and i...
Thursday, 3 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 5 Indian Pictures of Governor Peter Anker

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The Ethnographical Museum at the University of Oslo owns a collection of pictures, mainly water colours, from the collection of Peter Anker...
Wednesday, 2 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 4 Jain Art under the Pallavas

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The earliest reference to Jain art under the Pallavas, is of Simhanandi in the LokaVibhaaga in Saka 380 or 455 AD. A copper plate of Simhava...
Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Nagaswamy - 2 Chidambaram and Bengal

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Chidambaram gopuram - inside view An inscription dated 1262 AD in Chidambaram Nataraja temple mentions uttaraa padattu dakshina raadhattu ga...