3. Musicians and dancers: Fine arts like music and dance have reached glorious heights during the period of the Vijayanagara rulers. The wide spectrum of music and dance in the Vijayanagara period is attested by testimony of sculpture. An attempt has been made to give an account of different aspects of the musicians and dancers in the Vijayanagara temples of Rayalaseema. The temple walls, pillars, adhisthana, gopura and other component parts display different models of musicians and dancers. These figures are witness to the well flourishing stage of fine arts like music and dance, thereby suggesting the general prosperity of the common people.
Musicians:
A very good number of musicians are found in the sculptures at Lepakshi. The Natyamandapa …show more content…
One of them is on a loose slab and seems to represent a stately person standing on a handsomely carved pedestal, richly dressed bearing a small sword within a sheath attached to the girdle, in anjali pose and with a high crown over the flowing hairs11. Among the other four portraits two males are placed on pilasters on either side of a tiruvasi with a sala type of sikhara shown in the background but without any image inside. The portraits on the pilasters are shown against the background of concentric contour of pillars. The tiruvasi shows signs of having been disturbed. The other, three sculptures are two elegant ladies, the one waving the fly-whisk looks more beautiful the other with attractive adornment in almost every part of her body. The other two sculptures with different hair-do and ornaments are probably shown as guarding with the one having short sword, another having a …show more content…
In the Sri virabhadra swami temple of Rayachoti, Kadapa dist is a stone figure of a royal person has all the features of royal personage.
Conclusion:
Common people as represented in their secular imagery. Different kinds of common people images are found carved in the temples. Monoliths as seen in this account have been adorned in almost every case either in the case of kings or queens or their feudatories and their wives, and even among the common people, both men and women, with jewelry of different types which should be distinguished in order to understand these images better.
A field study has been under taken to study the sculptures of commoners, non-religious sculptures both men and women in the forms of individual as well as friezes. The dress patterns of the secular sculptures are also compared with the statements of foreign travelers, describe the social conditions of Andhras in some literary works with that of the costume depicted in the plastic art. Most of the common people characteristics noted by the foreign visitors are preserved in their sculptures and also
Musicians:
A very good number of musicians are found in the sculptures at Lepakshi. The Natyamandapa …show more content…
One of them is on a loose slab and seems to represent a stately person standing on a handsomely carved pedestal, richly dressed bearing a small sword within a sheath attached to the girdle, in anjali pose and with a high crown over the flowing hairs11. Among the other four portraits two males are placed on pilasters on either side of a tiruvasi with a sala type of sikhara shown in the background but without any image inside. The portraits on the pilasters are shown against the background of concentric contour of pillars. The tiruvasi shows signs of having been disturbed. The other, three sculptures are two elegant ladies, the one waving the fly-whisk looks more beautiful the other with attractive adornment in almost every part of her body. The other two sculptures with different hair-do and ornaments are probably shown as guarding with the one having short sword, another having a …show more content…
In the Sri virabhadra swami temple of Rayachoti, Kadapa dist is a stone figure of a royal person has all the features of royal personage.
Conclusion:
Common people as represented in their secular imagery. Different kinds of common people images are found carved in the temples. Monoliths as seen in this account have been adorned in almost every case either in the case of kings or queens or their feudatories and their wives, and even among the common people, both men and women, with jewelry of different types which should be distinguished in order to understand these images better.
A field study has been under taken to study the sculptures of commoners, non-religious sculptures both men and women in the forms of individual as well as friezes. The dress patterns of the secular sculptures are also compared with the statements of foreign travelers, describe the social conditions of Andhras in some literary works with that of the costume depicted in the plastic art. Most of the common people characteristics noted by the foreign visitors are preserved in their sculptures and also