The Temple of Muktesvara at Caudadanapura

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The Temple of Mukt®¿vara at Cau·ad¡napura
A little known 12th-13th century temple in Dharwar
District, Karnataka

VASUNDHARA FILLIOZAT
Architecture by PIERRE-SYLVAIN FILLIOZAT
Foreword by M. C. JOSHI

1995, xv+191pp. line drawings, col. and b&w plates, bibl., indexes ISBN: 81-7017-327-2; Rs 700 (HB)

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The northern part of Karnataka is one of the richest areas of India in monuments of great artistic value. It was subjected to the rule of several royal families, Calukyas of Kalyana, Kalcuris and sevunas in the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th centuries A.D. which has been a period of great cultural refinement. It was the time of the greatest expansion of the Kalamukha - Lakulasaiva movements, and of the rise of Virasaivism.

The temple of Muktesvara at Caudadanapura (Dharwar District) is a beautiful representative of the style and the high culture of that time. Its history is known to us, thanks to a set of seven long inscriptions, composed in literary medieval Kannada, engraved with great care on large steles. It is a single cella temple in what is popularly known as Jakkanacari style.

The present study contains a historical introduction, the complete edition, translation and interpretation of the inscriptions, an architectural description, with a graphic survey, and an iconographical analysis.

VASUNDHARA FILLIOZAT holds a Master's degree from Karnataka University, Dharwar and a Ph. D. from Sorbone, Paris. She has worked on many aspects of history of the Karnataka kings who ruled from Hampi-Vijaya-nagara. From 1985 onwards she works on the temples of jakkanacari style in the Dharwar District of Karnataka. Her fields of interest extend upto dance, music, drama and literature. She has published a number of books and articles in Kannada, English and French on Hampi, history of Karnataka, Indian music and drama, Kannada and French literature.

PIERRE-SYLVAIN FILLIOZAT teaches Sanskrit in Paris and conducts researches in Sanskrit grammer, poetry and poetics, tantra, especially the Sanskrit literature of Saivasiddhanta school and history of Indian architecture. He has published books and articles in French, English and Sanskrit, on Panini's Grammer, Patanjali's Mahabhasya, Saivagamas, temple architecture in Vijayanagara, etc.

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