SHIVA – THE "LINGAKRITI TEMPLE" OVER THE SHIVALINGAM Continue Reading...

PARASHURAMESHWAR TEMPLE – ANDHRA PRADESH – CHITTOOR – GUDIMALAM – Part 2 The Temple contains a very early LINGA with a full-length figure of SHIVA, housed in the GARBHAGRIHA of the temple. This is one of the earliest LINGA associated with SHIVA discovered so far, and it has been dated to the 2nd/1st century BCE. This is "the only sculpture to survive from ancient South India, before sculpture’s were made under the Pallava Dynasty around the 6th- 7th century Current Era. Continue Reading...

Orissi may well claim to be the earliest classical Indian dance style on the basis of archaeological evidence, the most outstanding being the Rani Gupta caves of the second century B. C. in Orissa. Scholars have dated these caves and their carvings to be earlier than the writing ofthe Natyascistra. Continue Reading...

normally are longer than the smaller units, sometimes these culminate as has been mentioned above or in multiples ofthree. There are even bigger Kcilasams known astheBaliya Kalasams. Continue Reading...

Sanskrit treatises on music and literature containing references to musical instruments begin from about the 3rd century B-c* In Barhut, Sanchi, Bhaja, etc., the artists of ancient India have sculptured various types of musical instruments in the scenes depicting the life of the Buddha. Continue Reading...

The great monument at Gangaikondacholapuram, the second Brihadisvara Gangaikondacholesvara temple (pi. VI), rears its head nobly and bespeaks the imperial dignity of the capital that Rajendra (1012-44), the son ofRajaraja, established after his victorious march to east India up to the river Ganga. Continue Reading...