Shiva's Waterfront Temples - Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India (Kaligotla Subhashini)(Pevná vazba)

The red sandstone towers of India's Pattadakal temple cluster have attracted visitors since the eighth century. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, and capital of Deccan India, Pattadakal is a site of monumental importance. In Shiva's Waterfront Temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates Pattadakal in the cosmopolitan milieu of Deccan India and considers how its makers and awestruck visitors would have seen it in its day. Kaligotla reconstructs how Pattadakal's architects and builders approached the site, including their use of ornamentation, micro-architecture, attentiveness to courtly values such as pleasure and play, and ingenious juxtaposition of the curved Nagara and tiered Dravida aesthetics, a blend largely unique to Deccan plateau architecture. With over 130 color illustrations, this original book expounds on Pattadakal's special place
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