India Perspectives, Volume 16PTI for the Ministry of External Affairs, 2003 - India |
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SI Trailokyamahadevi brought sculptors from Kanchipuram to create fantasies in stone here . You will find experiments done here in architecture . Delicately chiseled , rich in detail , the stone used is sandstone with a pink tinge that ...
SI Trailokyamahadevi brought sculptors from Kanchipuram to create fantasies in stone here . You will find experiments done here in architecture . Delicately chiseled , rich in detail , the stone used is sandstone with a pink tinge that ...
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... stones in their appropriate places . Under each stone is a thin silver film which acts as reflector for the transparent stones . Very often , instead of real stones , coloured foils are used to give the necessary effect . Paper thin ...
... stones in their appropriate places . Under each stone is a thin silver film which acts as reflector for the transparent stones . Very often , instead of real stones , coloured foils are used to give the necessary effect . Paper thin ...
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... stone chariot facing the central shrine is the grandest showpiece of the Vijaynagara sculptural art . It reproduces in stone the minutest details of a processional wooden temple chariot . Originally the exquisitely chiselled stone ...
... stone chariot facing the central shrine is the grandest showpiece of the Vijaynagara sculptural art . It reproduces in stone the minutest details of a processional wooden temple chariot . Originally the exquisitely chiselled stone ...
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