Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 58
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications
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JUNE, 1929
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Saint Pater walking on the water, and ho then dis. kútas had their own work in hand in the north, Chase the relationship between the Indian and notably the great excavations at Elúra,“ which," Christian legends with grent skill. The conclusion Mr. Cousens writes, “must have absorbed overy he arrives at is that the Christian tales originated in skilled workman in the country round, from north India. The whole book is written in a dispassionate and south. There is no doubt that a fresh impetus spirit and is suggestive in the extreme.
was given to temple building on the return to power
R. C. TEMPLE. of the Chalukya family under Taila II, towards the THE CHALUKYAN ARCHITECTURE OF THE KANARESE end of the tenth century, and it is from this time DISTRICTE, A.S.I., New Imperial Series, Vol. XLII. that we notice the first definite departure from the By HENRY COUSENS, M.R.A.S. 12 x 10; pp. x puro Dravidian types of the time of Vikramadity 158; with Map, 160 Plates and 43 Text Hlustra- II." From this time also the favourite building tions, Calcutta, 1926.
material of the early rulers--the sandstone of the This important monograph on Chalukyan arebi- district-was abandoned for a chloritio schist, tecture propared by Mr. H. Cousens, whose researches more tractable under the chisel and suited for the 8 Superintendent of the Archæological Survey of fine carving so characteristic of Chalukya work. India, Western Circle, are so well known, is pre- The main portion of the text is devoted to a defaced by a very useful, if brief, historical outline oftailed denoription of all the more distinctive and inthe dynasties of the Kanarese districts from the 6th teresting temples, both (1) Early and (2) Later. to the beginning of the fourteenth century, when the Short chapters follow on Kanara Templos, Rade Dekkan was overrun by Malik Kåfur. This sum.
Stone Monumente, Inscribed Tablets and Memorial mary is based upon Fleot's account, supplemented Stones, Objects of Fetish Worship and Sati Stones, by the evidence of epigraphical records since dis- Columns, Zodiacal Stones and Miscellaneous Objects. covered. Next follows an Introductory Note on A glossary is added of the principal names and terms ChAlukyan Architecture as found in the Kanarese occurring in the text. The wealth of photographs country, that is from Bhatkal in the south to near and drawings is a special feature of this handsome Kolhapur in the north, and from the Ghats on the volame. It is a pity that several of the photographs west to the western part of the Bellary district on reproduced are wanting in definition. the out, or roughly speaking, the aros watered by
C.E. A. W. OLDHAM. the upper courses of the Krank and Tungabhadrâ rivers and their tributaries. Mr. Cousens has found STILGESCHICHTE UND CHRONOLOGIE DES ROVADA VON from a fuller familiarity with examples of the style WALTHER WÜST. ABHANDLUNGEN FÜR DIE KUNDE than Fergusson had been able to acquire that the 80- DES MORGENLANDBS. XVII BAND, NR. 4. DEUTcalled Chalukyan architecture is not a distinot style, SCHE MORGENLÄNDISCHE GESELLSCHAFT IN with a separate origin of its own, but is merely an KOMMISSION BEI F. A. BROOKHAUS, LEIPZIG, 1928. outgrowth of the earlier Dravidian or Pallava style In this interesting book, the author pute forward of the south, so modified in its subsequent develop- a new criterion, that of style, from which, he claims, mont by western templo builders as to have even one oan determine correotly the relativo oarlines
ally attained a separate style in their hands, the and lateness of the hymns oomprised in the Bgvoda. different stepe in the transition from the purely samhita. For this purpose, he picks out soventoon Dravidian types of the seventh and eighth centuries
classes of words (hapax logomana, words with urddhi being easily discernible. Taking & their starting point in secondary noun-formation, words formed with the Dravidian temples, several early specimens of lato suffixes, etc.); and after showing in Chap. I and which had been erected around Kukkanûr, Patta- II that each class of words is a mark of lateness, fordaka, Aihole and Badimi, the Chalukyan builders mulates the conclusion, the more the number of 00introduced changes until the original forms were currences, per hundred, of such words, the later the almost lost. While retaining the characteristic hymn : the less the earlier Dravidian storied or trorjoittel arrangement of the
The inclusion of hap. leg. in these clamos is obtowers, they reduced the eight of each storey, in
jectionable and seems to be due to confusion of troduced more of them, pd covered them with such
thought. The hap. leg. orduattanam in I. 1, for profusion of ornamental detail that they became
instanoo, is, in the author's view, newly coined by masked, and, in later examples, sarde apparent.
the poet and used in the hymn in order to add Mr. Oounens shows how the Virupakan templo (purely
touch of archaism, or to show his ability in oompoeDravidian) at' Pattadakal, the Jains temple and the
ing verses, or coining words at a moment's notico, Kativi vekvara temple at Lakkundi and the Dodda
or in introducing into literary language expression BasappA temple at Dambel exemplify the transition. that were not considered literary. That means (1)
The ChAluk yas, from the time of Palikekin II, at that when the poet oomposed this hymn, there ex least, until their temporary eclipse by the Rastra- isted already a definite collection of hymne knows katas in the eighth century continued to use tho Dra- as the RVB and (2) that each poet's compositions vidian style, for which they probably obtained build were being, soon after, added to this collection ens from the south. During the Rastrakata period until it assumed the form that it now has. This is little seems to have been done in the way of temple fantastio proposition to which few wil saboaribe. building in the Kanarose districts. The Rastra. Dr. Wast's method, too. does not lead to reliable.
