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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013

“A STUDY OF THE CHOLA PERIOD BRONZES OF ARUNAJATESWARA TEMPLE AT THIRUPPANANDAL – TAMILNADU.”

V. JAISHANKAR

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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India is famous for its bronzes, but the most prolific production has been in the south, where some of the greatest masterpieces have been produced. 'Bronze' is a conventional term for metal images irrespective of the exact number of proportion of metals mixed in the amalgam out of which the images are cast.1 The bronzes are of two types namely hollow and solid, and most of the bronzes made in Tamilnadu are of solid type. The solid type bronzes are made by the cire perdu (lost wax) method. Accordingly, the bronze images are cast out of an alloy, composed of copper, brass, tin, silver and gold, the last one being very meagre in quantity. These bronzes occur in abundance, in the Tamil country and almost every temple in South India, especially in the Thanjavur district, has its own collection of bronzes.

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V. JAISHANKAR, (2013). “A STUDY OF THE CHOLA PERIOD BRONZES OF ARUNAJATESWARA TEMPLE AT THIRUPPANANDAL – TAMILNADU.”. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2564.pdf

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