Digital Rare Book:
A Dictionary Of Hindu Architecture
Treating of Sanskrit Architectural terms with illustrative quotations from Silpasastras, General Literature and Archaeological Records
By Prasanna Kumar Acharya
First published in 1934
Essay:
Temple Urbanism in Medieval South India
By James Heitzman
Published in The Journal of Asian Studies - 1987
The Tamil country of South India experienceda flowering of political, economic, and cultural forces during the Chola period (849-1279). The environments supporting this expansion wer...
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Chola Temples of Thanjavur and Kumbhakonam
By Sahapedia online
Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur
The celebrated Saiva temple at Thanjavur, appropriately called Brihadisvara and Daksinameru, is the grandest creation of the Chola emperor Rajaraja (AD 985-1012). It was inaugurated by the ki...
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View from the back of the Sarangapani Temple looking towards the Kumbheshvara Temple, Kumbakonam - 1892
Photograph of the Kumbeshvara temple from the back of the Sarangapani Temple, taken by Alexander Rea around 1892, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. Kumbakonam, in Tamil Nadu...
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General view from the north looking across the Mahamakam Tank towards temples on the farther side, Kumbakonam - 1892
Photograph of the Mahamakan Tank and temples in Kumbakonam, taken by Alexander Rea in c.1892, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. Kumbakonam, in Tamil Nadu, was a...
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Digital Rare Book:
Later Chola Temples - Kulottunga I to Rajendra III (AD 1070 - 1280)
By S.R. Balasubrahmanyam
Published by Mudgal Trust, Madras - 1960
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Photograph of the entrance gopura to the Vishvanath...
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The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai - VOLUME 2
Dubash to Joseph François Dupleix.
A record of matters political, historical, social, and personal, from 1736 to 1761 Translated from Tamil by the Order of The Government of Madras and Edited By Sir J. Frederick Price
Assisted by K. Rangachari -...
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Digital Book :
The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai - VOLUME 1
Dubash to Joseph François Dupleix.
A record of matters political, historical, social, and personal, from 1736 to 1761
Translated from Tamil by the Order of The Government of Madras and Edited By Sir J. Frederick Price
Assisted by ...
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Painting depicting a Vaisnava temple procession ca.1820, in South India. Possibly from Srirangam. The temple gopurams (or towering gateways) are seen in the background as the lively procession passes outside the temple wall. Visnu's Sankha and Chakra are held up in the middle of the procession al...
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Nammalvar sits in lalitasana on a platform. His complexion is blue, he wears a headdress, the chayakkontai, and Tengalai namams (emblems) are drawn on his forehead throat, arms and stomach. His jewellery is made of Kamalakshi beads. His right hand is in the teaching gesture and in his left he ho...
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Photograph of St. Mary’s Church in Fort St George, Madras, Tamil Nadu, taken by Frederick Fiebig in c.1851. St Mary’s Church is the oldest surviving Anglican church in the East. Built by Sir Streynsham Master, Governor of Madras between 1678-81, ...
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Brihadishvara Temple complex in Thanjavur - The pyramidal gateway at entrance - 1868
Photograph of the Brihadishvara Temple complex in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu from the 'Photographs to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Southern India' collection, taken by Edmund David Lyon in c. 1868. Thanjavu...
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General view from outside of the west gopura of the Ramalingeshvara Temple, Rameswaram - 1895
Photograph of the Ramalingeshvara temple at Rameswaram, in Tamil Nadu, taken by Alexander Rea in c.1890, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This temple complex is situated on the sacre...
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View of the interior of the south gopura of the Ramalingeshwara Temple, Rameswaram - 1882
Photograph of the south gopura of the Ramalingeshvara Temple at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, taken by Nicholas and Company in c.1882, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This temple complex is...
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Procession réligieuse dans les galeries du couvent de Ramisseram près de Ceylan - June 1841
Lithograph of a religious procession inside the Ramalingeshwara Temple at Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu near Sri Lanka by L.H. de Rudder (1807-1881) after the original drawing of June 1841 by Prince Aleksandr...
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