Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India Kaligotla Subhashini
Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India Kaligotla Subhashini This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World…
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Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India Kaligotla Subhashini
This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers.The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier. In Shiva's Waterfront Temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates these buildings in the cosmopolitan milieu of Deccan India and considers how their makers and awestruck visitors would have seen them in their day. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, Pattadakal and its neighboring sites are of major historical importance.
Kaligotla reconstructs how architects and builders approached the sites, including their use of ornamentation, responsiveness to courtly values such as pleasure and play, and ingenious