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Description: | Photograph of the mandapa of the Marghabhandu Temple at Virinchipuram, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections, taken by an unknown photographer in c.1870. Virinchipuram is a small town 12 km west of Vellore. The Marghabhandu or Margasahayeshvara Temple was built in the Aravidu style of Tamil Nadu in the 16th century. This is a view of the facade of the twin kalyana mandapas or halls with sculptured piers in the form of rearing yalis and horses with riders. 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."
View showing façade of carved pillars. India Museum 791. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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