THE KAILASANATHA TEMPLE IN KANCHIPURAM: MEANING IN MATERIAL FORM
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31 Aug 2023
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The Indian Temple
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Padma Kaimal
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Image: Shiva as a Wanderer, The Kailasanatha Temple, Kanchi
The Kailasanatha temple complex, constructed ca 700-728 CE by men and women of the Pallava dynasty in Kanchipuram, reveals much about thought worlds of the ancient Indic south.The material elements of this complex fit together like the pieces of an elegant puzzle to articulate nurturing, fecund energies and triumph over threats from outside and within. This monument encourages both modes of being, holding them in dialog and revealing them through secret and public signs.
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Padma Kaimal
Dr. Padma Kaimal is the Michael J. Batza Chair in Art History at Colgate University. Her research questions common assumptions about ancient art from the Tamil region. Her new book, Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space, reconstructs the aspirations, profound wisdom, Tantric secrets, and distinctive world view of ancient kings and queens of South India through the monument’s material forms. Her previous book, Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (2012) disrupts categories of East and West, scattering and collecting, as it traces the worship, ruination, dispersal, and re-enshrinement of nineteen sculptures from a 10th-century goddess temple.