BOOKS ON SOUTH INDIAN HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE

This book makes a detailed study of the Beginnings of the South Indian History based on the literary sources in Tamil classics and poets who contributed much to the history of the region beginning with the advent of the Christian Era, The research sources for this study has been analysed from the view point of Greek, Chinese, Arabian travelogues, Archeological Inputs and Epigraphical sources. The historical inputs from literary sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, Kanarese, and Telugu have been exemplified in the introduction.

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THE Classic Menimekhalai and its twin Silappadshikaram formed the part of the study in connection with the age of Tamil Sangam. The contents of the research contained material taken fromSilappadhikaram and Manimekhalai. The author in thse lectures have attempted to consider the question the position of Manimekhalai a,ong the Tamil classics. The Translation of this important classicchapter by chapter brings to the fore the different philosophical systems that existed at the Sangam Age.The aithor habe omitted no material point and keep the tone of the Original.This lectures were presented as a special lecture.

The original religion of the Dravidians consisted of the worship of ancestral spirits and village gods. It was considerably modified by the contact of the Dravidians with the Aryans, As a result of Aryan invasions of South India, the Dravidian religion was completely Aryanised. The gods of the two races united together and formed a single hierarchy. The temples which were connected with the primitive Dravidian religion became the centres of the reformed religion. The Aryan gods became thence forward the principal residents of the Dravidian temples.

With a view to stimulate interest in one of the important areas of South Indian Archeology, precisely called Dravidian Architecture and direct that interest into fruitful fields of work, this little handbook has been published in the present form of bringing out this English version of the French work, which is rather of the nature of an introduction to the subject of his larger work than an abridgement of it.

The Book deals extensively with the different types of sculptors and portraits found in various temples and elsewhere and how they found important places in monuments and temples. Fully illustrated with samples from various sources will be an important contribution to the art and history of south Indian Archeology and Iconography.