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Vijayanagara -- 3 Volume Set - Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre (Hardcover)
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Vijayanagara -- 3 Volume Set - Architectural Inventory of the Sacred Centre (Hardcover)
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The architectural inventory documents all the structures of the
Sacred Centre of Vijayanagara, the great ruined Hindu capital on
the Tungabhadra River in central Karnataka. The Sacred Centre is of
outstanding interest from the historical and religious point of
view, since it is the oldest part of the Vijayanagara site, with
shrines dating back to the ninth century AD. With the establishment
of the capital by the Sangamas in the fourteenth century, it was
the Sacred Centre that was first developed, with much building
activity occurring around the Virupaksha sanctuary in Hampi. As the
capital expanded under the Sangamas and Tuluvas in the course of
the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries, other
significant religious monuments were establishmed in the Sacred
Centre, especially in the urban quarters of Hampi, Krishnapura,
Achyutapura and Vitthalapura. Scattered along the south bank of the
Tungabhadra over a distance of some 5 km, these monuments fully
illustrate the evolution of the Vijayanagara architectural style.
The inventory is based on more than twenty years of fieldwork
conducted by teams of architects and art historians under the
guidance of the authors. It describes more than 400 structures,
ranging from large-scale temple complexes, such as those dedicated
to Virupaksha, Balakrishna, Tiruvengalanatha and Vitthala, to
simpler and smaller shrines consecrated to a variety of deities, as
well as mandapas, gateways, water features and other structures,
most of which are reproduced here for the first time. The
architectural descriptions, location maps, measured drawings and
photographs are divided into three volumes.
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