Shiva’s Waterfront Temples
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13 Sep
14 Sep
2023
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The Indian Temple
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Subhashini Kaligotla
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Image: Shiva Temple, Virupaksha Temple Complex, 733-745 CE, Pattadakal, Karnataka, India. Photo: Caleb Smith.
The temple cluster at Pattadakal has long attracted attention. A UNESCO World Heritage site and the coronation place of the Chalukya kings, its vibrant, red sandstone temples are an innovative blend of Dravida and Nagara architectural styles, a synthesis largely unique to the Deccan Plateau. This lecture series situates Pattadakal’s riverfront world in Deccan India’s cosmopolitan milieu to showcase how architects and awestruck visitors experienced the site during its eighth-century heyday.
Session 1: Introducing Pattadakal
The major temples and their riverfront locale
Session 2: Pattadakal’s Creators
How inscriptions and sculpted surfaces bring medieval creators to life
Session 3: Making Pattadakal
Miniature buildings as design and communication technologies
Session 4: Experiencing Pattadakal
Pleasure and architectural innovation in play
This Lecture series is part of the Postgraduate THE INDIAN TEMPLE Course
Registration Fee for this Public seminar series only: Rs. 2,000/-, Students*: Rs. 1000/- | Registrations open at Jnanapravaha institute for physical (In-person) attendance only.
For registration kindly visit: The Jnanapravaha insititute in Fort, Mumbai. Payments accepted in cash and cheque only.
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Duration -
September 13, 14, 2023
Timing: 6:30 - 8:45 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Subhashini Kaligotla
Subhashini Kaligotla is an Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. She is author of Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India—a work that places the ingenuity of medieval Deccan Indian creators at its center. Her current book project, entitled Seeing Ghosts, explores South Asian death cycles through visual media. The research is concerned with the moment of death and its representations, mortuary rituals such as embalming and cremation, memorials of various types, including for those who embraced death, as well as afterworlds and their inhabitants.