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Three Temple Sculptures from Mallabh÷ma SHARMILA SAHA "God images placed on the exterior walls of... more Three Temple Sculptures from Mallabh÷ma SHARMILA SAHA "God images placed on the exterior walls of the temple give personality to the inner deity; they multiply his manifestations, create a mythical family and provide individualized forms for personal worship." (Meister 1993: 102). I Possibly the earliest representation of relief sculptures forming part of exterior decorative elements in early Indian religious architecture dates to the early centuries of the pre-Christian era. 1 The subject of decorations, however, varied with geographical and chronological forces of expression, in compliance with the politico-economic and socio-religious changes within defined spatio-temporal contexts. Like subjects of decoration, the media of expression also underwent successive stages of experimentation and evolution from wood through stone to brick, in accordance with the primary geographical factor of availability of raw material and the aesthetic ideologies of a specific culture and/or polity.
Temple-building activity in West Bengal under the Malla rule between the seventeenth and nineteen... more Temple-building activity in West Bengal under the Malla rule between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries have been subjected to a number of researches by historians of society and art as well as epigraphists. But many of the temple-sites of the Malla period have still escaped the attentions of scholars so far. These are either inadequately studied or altogether unreported. The sites of Birsimha and Majdiha in Bankura, both having inscribed temples built during Malla rule are probably fragmented evi-dences of many others still to be located. This essay attempts at a detailed study of these dated temples and tries to underline the locational significance of these temples in the general frame of Malla polity and economy.
Three Temple Sculptures from Mallabh÷ma SHARMILA SAHA "God images placed on the exterior walls of... more Three Temple Sculptures from Mallabh÷ma SHARMILA SAHA "God images placed on the exterior walls of the temple give personality to the inner deity; they multiply his manifestations, create a mythical family and provide individualized forms for personal worship." (Meister 1993: 102). I Possibly the earliest representation of relief sculptures forming part of exterior decorative elements in early Indian religious architecture dates to the early centuries of the pre-Christian era. 1 The subject of decorations, however, varied with geographical and chronological forces of expression, in compliance with the politico-economic and socio-religious changes within defined spatio-temporal contexts. Like subjects of decoration, the media of expression also underwent successive stages of experimentation and evolution from wood through stone to brick, in accordance with the primary geographical factor of availability of raw material and the aesthetic ideologies of a specific culture and/or polity.
Temple-building activity in West Bengal under the Malla rule between the seventeenth and nineteen... more Temple-building activity in West Bengal under the Malla rule between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries have been subjected to a number of researches by historians of society and art as well as epigraphists. But many of the temple-sites of the Malla period have still escaped the attentions of scholars so far. These are either inadequately studied or altogether unreported. The sites of Birsimha and Majdiha in Bankura, both having inscribed temples built during Malla rule are probably fragmented evi-dences of many others still to be located. This essay attempts at a detailed study of these dated temples and tries to underline the locational significance of these temples in the general frame of Malla polity and economy.
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