Pratibha Prakashan Catalogue 2019-20 Archaeology History And
Early Temple Art and Antiquities of New Horizons of Buddhism in Odisha Odisha óAjit Kumar Tripathy, Prafulla Chandra óSasanka Sekhar Panda 29 cm., Tripathy, Chandra Bhanu Patel xxii+202; 236 col. illus., bib., gloss. index. 29cm., xii+284+40 col.illus 978-81-7702-445-6 2019 ` 5995 978-81-7702-439-5 2019 ` 5995 This work deals with early temple and Research in history is a careful knowledge sculptural art of the western and in human heritage in general. It requires a very southwestern parts of the Odisha State, an high degree of objectivity, commitment and Eastern Province of the Republic of India, responsibility, on the part of the scholar. At the which was considered since the time of time of Gautam Buddha, in the post- Buddha, a sacred land. As it was lying on Mahabharat era major political and economic changs were occuring in north and central India and the old system of major trade routes connecting ancient Magadha with Daksinapatha social and economic classes had started disintegrating. The Brahman or present South India it drew the attention of Samrat Ashoka of the priestly class had lost much of its old prestige. The religon of the Vedas mighty Mauryas of Pataliputra in the third century B.C. The western with its worship of nature and natural phenomena did not have as much part of Odisha, being mostly hilly forest land and inhabited by the appeal left as in earlier times. A influential traders class was coming up tribes, it was not conquered by Ashoka, who has termed it as the land in many places, particularly in urban areas.
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