Mandapa an astro-archaeological discovery
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by Raja Deekhshithar
„…..So many questions arise from this iconography and from these symbols. This mandapa is a remarkable astronomical monument. I feel and could say it is an astro-archaeological discovery of high significance. It obviously commemorates …several solar and lunar eclipses so the next question was which astronomical events were depicted here?…..“
Die >> indische Architektur << umfasst die Architektur des indischen Subkontinents mit den Staaten Indien, Pakistan, Bangladesch, Nepal und Sri Lanka vom Beginn der Indus-Kultur im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis heute. Sie spiegelt sowohl die ethnische und religiöse Vielfalt des indischen Subkontinents als auch dessen historische Entwicklung wider.
Ursprünglich war ein >> Mandapa << eine Art Vorhalle, die vor der Stirnseite eines Sikara (auch Shikhara oder Rekha, Turmbau in südindischen Tempeln) angebracht war. Er diente hier als Eingang, der zur inneren Heiligtumskammer führte.
Als >> Mondop << (von Sanskrit Mandapa – “Pavillon”) bezeichnet man ein würfelförmiges Gebäude in einem Wat, der buddhistischen Tempelanlage in Thailand.
The Hensley Collection is a collection of photographs taken during Second World War by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley. The photographs, numbering almost 600, were given to the University of Chicago Library by the photographer. The text with the images is taken from notes written by Mr. Hensley himself.
The images include a rich collection of photographs taken in Calcutta (Kolkata) during 1943-1944 by Mr. Hensley, a professional photographer participating in the surveillance of the Japanese in Burma for the U.S. Army. During his off-duty time Mr. Hensley used his ethnographer’s eye to capture daily life in a number of locations around India. The majority of the images are from Calcutta and its environs. Other locations in this collection are Madras (Chennai), Kharagpur, Agra, and Burma. The photographs and notes were prepared by Hensley for his wife to use in teaching world history courses in Missouri during Second World War.
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