Two-storied mandapa of the Margasahayeshvara Temple, Virinchipuram
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Resumo
Photograph of the two-storeyed mandapa of the Margasahayeshvara Temple or Marghabhandu Temple at Virinchipuram in Tamil Nadu, taken by the Madras School of Industrial Arts in c.1868, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. Virinchipuram is a small town 12 kilometres west of Vellore. The Marghabhandu Temple was built in the Aravidu style of Tamil Nadu in the 16th century. It has twin kalyana mandapas or halls with piers sculpted with rearing yalis and riders on horseback. Robert Sewell wrote in the Madras List of 1868, "The central shrine of the temple Margasahayesvara is said to have been built by a Chola Raja. Some of the mandapams are said to have been sculptured by the son of the artist that executed the carvings of the kalyana mandapam of the Vellore temple.". 23.7 x 25.9 Centimetres. Photographer: Madras School of Industrial Arts.
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