Comments on: A Sculpture Monalisa

By: Vijay

Vijay — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:40:16 +0000

thanks Kalai virumbi - nice name by the way !!

By: kalaivirumbi

kalaivirumbi — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:50:47 +0000

I wonder with all of your efforts. go ahead. It is just like getting juice in desert not water. THIRUCHITRAMBALAM.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:36:01 +0000

நன்றி திரு ஜி.ஸன்தானம்,

விரைவில் இன்னும் ஒரு தாராசுரம் சிறப்பு சிற்பத்துடன் வருகிறேன்.

விஜய்

By: Sethuraman

Sethuraman — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:19:34 +0000

That is divine! the sculpture must be at least a thousand years’ old but the divinity has not gone! we should be proud that we have this kind of heritage. Will our descendants be lucky to look at these after some hundreds of years?

By: ஜி.ஸன்தானம்

ஜி.ஸன்தானம் — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:35:01 +0000

தாராசுரத்தின் மற்ற சிற்பங்களின் முழு அழகைக்காண கட்டாயம் ஒருமுறை நேரில் சென்று பார்வையடவேண்டும்.

By: REACH Chandra

REACH Chandra — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:06:23 +0000

Also seen in most of the Rajendra/ Rajaraja temples.

By: Geetha Sambasivam

Geetha Sambasivam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:59:30 +0000

simply superb! , waiting for the other one to come.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:39:13 +0000

dear ragothaman,

Greetings and welcome to the site. I will most certainly ask my friends to get better snaps to support the post. Meantime you could see below article of K Balu sir which came in the Hindu on this sculpture

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2004/12/17/stories/2004121702601200.htm

you can also try to click on the image titled single fang

http://gallery.poetryinstone.in/d/3393-2/single+fang.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=849a9213b34bfdd74fd6d80701e99201

to get a clearer view

rgds
vj

By: ragothaman

ragothaman — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:36:52 +0000

Hi,
One of your silent admirers from PSVP group. Firstly kudos for maintaining a site like this. Very happy to see that you are putting so much effort and posting very frequently. Last year in August there was a seminar at madras sanskrit college where myself and plastics chandra participated and had a wonderful time listening to the stapathi who gave a talk titled “iconography of shiva” the highlight of the talk was about the same sculpture from Darasuram. He explained the marma sthanams and other details of this sculpture. So very happy to see this on your blog.

But, one comment from myside is that I donot see any difference between the two half of the faces. The reason is as follows:the side facing parvathi also has the brows arched in the same angles and the eyes are wide open. Lets imagine looking shiva not from the side angle but rotating the view so as to face him straight to straight. Then you could imagine that if half is in anger and other half smiling then it would look like the two-face from batman comics. (The dark knight effect….) What I would suggest for you to check your theory is to ask some one visiting tanjore to take a photograph of the sculpture with the close up of shiva’s face facing the camera. This will throw more light.

Looking forward to your interesting posts.

With Kind Regards,

Ragothaman

By: Swaroopini

Swaroopini — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:20:17 +0000

hi vijay
Excellent Post. But i would like to touch upon what Dhiva said. The last 2 images that u have given, the angry shiva and normal shiva, if you look close it looks like the side facing parvathi is angry and the other side looks calm as opposed to what you’ve mentioned. Can u pls have a re-look?