Author: K R Srinivasan
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Year: 1975
Language: English
Pages: 112+31 Plates
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170170222
Description
This publication for the first time is a full account of the Dharmaraja Ratha, the largest and most versatile of the famous monolithic Vimanas of Pallava origin in Mahaballpuram. With its full descriptive text and illustrations of all the sculptures, most of them hitherto unpulished, and including all the architectural views, too, it is a complete and fully illustrated treatise on the monument from the points of view of technique, architecture, sculpture, iconography, epigraphy and chronology.
It is the outcome of the patient and critical study of a scholar with many years service and experience in the Archaeological Survey of India, particularly in the architectural and iconographic survey of temples, which made him the organizer and the first officer in charge of the Temple Survey Project (South). As a close and integrated study of a typical Pallavamonument and with its ample photographic illustrations the book in openingup newvistas altogether is expected to stimulate interest and further research in the field of Indian architecture and sculpture, particularly south Indian.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Rathas of Mahabalipuram
The Architectural Aspect of The Dharmaraja Ratha
The Sculptures and Their Iconography
The Architectural Milieu and Ethos
The Sculptural Style and Idiom
The Inscriptions and Chronology
Bibliography
Illustrations
INDEX