Kanchipuram : A Heritage of Art and Religion/edited by Nandita Krishna.
Reprint. Chennai, The C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, 2006, vi, 186 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-901484-1-9.
Kanchipuram : A Heritage of Art and Religion/edited by Nandita Krishna.
Reprint. Chennai, The C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, 2006, vi, 186 p., (pbk). ISBN 81-901484-1-9.
Contents: 1. Introduction/Nandita Krishna. 2. History of Kanchipuram/C.A. Padmanabha Sastry. 3. A Tamil-Brahmi Cave Inscription near Kanchi/Iravatham Mahadevan. 4. Shaivism in Kanchi/N. Nagaswamy. 5. Vaishnavism in Kanchi/M.A. Venkatakrishnan. 6. Buddhism in Kanchi/Rangarajan Vijayalakshmy. 7. Jainism in Kanchi/A. Ekambaranathan. 8. Art heritage of Kanchi/K.V. Raman. 9. Paintings of Kanchi/Nanditha Krishna. 10. Recent Archaeological finds in and around Kanchi/Natana Kasinathan. 11. Roman vestiges in Kanchi/S. Suresh. 12. Devaram and Divyaprabandham Traditions of Kanchi/Pramila Gurumurthy. 13. Kanchi Math from historic evidence/Lakshmi Venkataraman. 14. Some aspects of the economy of medieval Kanchipuram/P. Shanmugam. 15. Musical heritage of Kanchi/Vedavalli. 16. Musical instruments in the sculptures at Kanchi/B. Sasi Sekaran. 17. Festivals in Kanchi/Bhanu Chari. 18. Kanchipuram, temple town structure - The past and the present/A. Srinivasan. 19. Kanchi- the seat of knowledge/Chitra Madhavan. 20. Shakunthala Jagannathan Museum of Folk Art. Glossary.
"Kanchipuram was the home of the various religions movements of South India. Buddhism and Jainism reached their zenith here, Shaivism and Vaishnavism had their beginnings at Kanchi. It was at Kanchi that Adi Shankara established one of his maths, the Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. It were also at Kanchi that the foundations of South Indian Art and Architecture was first laid. In fact, Kanchipurm can be called a text book of South Indian history. There is no other city where each succeeding dynasty left its imprint.
The papers published in this book are the work of a group of erudite scholars presented during a seminar Nagareshu Kanchi organized by C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research."