[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915) › c7.32 # South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c7.32 South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c7.32 - **Language:** English ### [c7.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c7.32) Amongst votive offerings in ancient Greece similar gifts of images are also recorded.³ The statues of Artemis generally offered at childbirth were more common than other images. As nearest equivalent in Christian Church may be cited, the Catholic custom of making relic-holders in the shape of busts and statues. An inscription dated the 48th year of the reign of King Kulottunga, I (1069-1119 A.D.), records that Nanurruvan Malaiyam a native of Kiliyur of Tirumunaippa set up an image of Natarāja in the temple of Neyvanai and made a grant of land for offerings.¹ An inscription from Tiruvilimilai states that the mother of the chief Rajendra Chola (A.D. 1012) set up a copper image of Algiyamanavala (a Vaisnava saint) in the 10th year of the king's reign.² Another inscription on the same stone bears a record which registers a gift to the same temple and to the setting up of the image of Sri Krishna. Similarly, a gift was made in the 11th year of the reign of Raj Raja Deva, III, to a shrine in the temple of Kovilur by the citizens of Vikkirma-barana-puram in Umbarnadu, and in the 31st year of the same reign another grant was made to the shrine of Surya Deva by the citizens of Pirantaka-puram. A record of the 11th year of the same reign refers to the setting up of an image of the Saiva devotee Manikkavasagar in the third \*prākāra\* (gallery) of the temple of Tiruvilimilai.³ It is Raj Rajeswar who is said to have set the first example of setting up the images of the Saiva saints in the temple of Tanjore.⁴ - [Previous: c7.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c7.31) - [Next: c7.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c7.33) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c7.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c7.32) · Pramāṇa