CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

The queen Sembiyan Mahadevi built the Kailasanathaswami temple at Sembiyan Mahadevi Pattinam. She also established in the town a set of brahmins learned in the four vedas consequently called chaturvedi bhattas. A select body of elders were chosen to administer temple affairs and utilisation of funds and gifts for the temple. This temple was a new edifice and the inscriptions range from the time of Uttama Chola (971 – 988 CE) to that of Rajaraja III (1216–1246 CE). The temple village lies desolate today and the temple has suffered in appearance due to the liberal coats of whitewash applied to its walls and layers of painted stucco on the temple tower. There are nine divinity niches (devakoshtas), a feature characteristic of the time of Sembiyan Mahadevi. References: Venkataraman, 1976, pp. 27-30, M.W. Meister and M.A. Dhaky, 1963, p. 185.

Kailashesvara temple group, Bannuru

Kaipattoor, Baroque Architecture, Kerala

Kaithali Siva complex, Netirimangalam, Kerala

The museum is dedicated to the arts of Odisha. The museum's galleries are about the Handicrafts and Handlooms from around the state. The Handicrafts galleries are on Terracotta, Traditional Paintings, Stone and Wood carving, Natural material crafts and Tribal Crafts. The Handlooms galleries display unique and antique raw materials and equipment as well as variety of Handlooms from across the state. The Center for Art and Archaeology documented the museum's collection in 2019-20. 

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Kalakupa, Vellore, Tamil Nadu