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Throwing light on Big Temple
A. SRIVATHSAN
| “The architecture and sculptural layout are manifestations of liturgical ideas” |
BRHADISVARA TEMPLE-Form and meaning: By R. Nagaswamy, Published by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Janpath, New Delhi and Aryan Books International, Pooja Apartments, 4B, Ansari Road, New Delhi-110002. Price Rs. 3000.
Almost two decades ago, the Government of India funded-IGNCA launched an elaborate project to study the Brihadisvara temple at Thanjavur. It planned to bring out a series of publications, including a multilingual bibliography and a compendium of epigraphs, to disseminate the findings of the study. However, only one comprehensive publication saw the light of day. Pierre Pichard's excellent work on the temple architecture was the first book to be published, and that was in 1995. Nagaswamy's book under review is the second one in the promised series. The millennium celebrations of the Brihadisvara temple probably provided the impetus.
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