CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Digitization of this collection has been possible with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. 

Candi Badut, Malang, Eastern Java, Indonesia

Candolim, Baroque Architecture, Goa

The Candramoulisvara temple at Tiruvakkarai might have been in existence since at least the time of Aditya I (871-907 CE). This stone temple was then known only as that of Karralip-perumal-adigal. The temple consists of two shrines - a ruined Siva shrine called in the inscriptions that of Shivalokamudaiya-Paramasvamin built by Sembiyan Mahadevi and a Vishnu shrine dedicated to Varadaraja Perumal. There is hundred pillared hall (mandapa) in the second enclosure (prakara) of the temple which could be dated to 1180 CE. There is an inscription on the south wall of the mandapa that mentions the feats of Kulottunga III (1178-1218 CE). References: S.R. Balasubrahmanyam, 1979, pp. 300-301.

The Candrasekhara temple at Tiruchchendurai has inscriptions on its walls that cover almost the whole of the Chola period. According to an inscription Pudi Adichcha Pidariyar, queen of Parantaka I is credited with the construction of this temple with stone (karrali). The stone temple was already in existence in 909 CE when a stone structure replaced a brick structure. A certain formal nearness of this building to the Muvarkovil, together with the style of pilaster decorations and bhutas of the bhutamala, seem to warrant a date in or before 894 CE. References: M.W. Meister and M.A. Dhaky, 1963, pp. 210-212, D. Barrett, 1974, p. 52, S.R. Balasubrahmanyam, 1966, pp.93-95.

Carambolim, Baroque Architecture, Goa