BOOKS ON SOUTH INDIAN HISTORY ANDARCHITECTURE

S.KRISHNASWAMY AIYENGAR

The book makes a detailed study of the Beginnings of the South Indian History based on the literary sources in Tamil classics and poets who contributed much to the history of the region beginning with the advent of the Christian era. The research sources for this study has been analysed from the view point of Greek, Chinese, Arabian travelogues, archeological inputs and epigraphical sources. The input from literary sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, Kanarese and Telugu have been amply exemplified in the introduction. The chronology of the Tamil classics have been made helpful in assessing the historical aspects of the period from advent of Christian era and the related history of the period. How the rulers and chieftains had been the source for the successful growth of the Tamil Sangam have been applauded in the chronology. The advent of the Astronomical data elicited from the Tamil literary classics are an important addendum to these lectures and the inadvertant errors in eliciting them have been amply discussed. In the last chapter the geneology of the Pandyan Kingdom have been discussed and how the literary, archeological and epigraphical sources have been helpful in reaching at this historical research
Rs. 325.00

S.KRISHNA SWAMY AIYENGAR

THE Classic Menimekhalai and its twin Silappadshikaram formed the part of the study in connection with the age of Tamil Sangam. The contents of the research contained material taken fromSilappadhikaram and Manimekhalai. The author in thse lectures have attempted to consider the question the position of Manimekhalai a,ong the Tamil classics. The Translation of this important classicchapter by chapter brings to the fore the different philosophical systems that existed at the Sangam Age.The aithor habe omitted no material point and keep the tone of the Original.This lectures were presented as a special lecture.
Rs350.00

K S RAMASWAMY SASTRI

The Book is a based on a series of lectures, which were originally deliveredby Sri RamaswamiSastri under the auspices of the Travancore University. Starts with an overall evaluation of Architecture from all over the world, and how Indian Architecture and Sculpture, both Hindu and Buddhist, have been an influential factor on those and Special attention is paid to the indigenous architecture of India in total and also as exemplified respectively in Suchindrum and Trivandrum as well as in Vaikom, Ettumanoor and Ambalapuzha, and elsewhere in India as a whole.The chapters on Indian iconography are specially noteworthy for the analysis of the rules and canons underlying image-making through the ages. Through his lecture on Indian Painting, he brings the originality ofthe Ajanta frescoes and the later Hindu and Muslim paintings, its influence to the fore.
Rs.395.00

VENKATARAMANAYYA

The original religion of the Dravidians consisted of the worship of ancestral spirits and village gods. It was considerably modified by the contact of the Dravidians with the Aryans, As a result of Aryan invasions of South India, the Dravidian religion was completely Aryanised. The gods of the two races united together and formed a single hierarchy. The temples which were connected with the primitive Dravidian religion became the centres of the reformed religion. The Aryan gods became thence forward the principal residents of the Dravidian temples.
Rs 15.00