Elements of Hindu Iconography v2.c16.s6.7

v2.c16.s6.7

Four pictures are reproduced to illustrate the description given above. The first fig. 1, Pl. XLIX, is of a sculpture to be seen in the big Śiva temple at Gaṅgakoṇḍaśōḷapuram, built by Rājēndraśōḷa, the son of Rājarāja the great. In this is seen Śiva seated with his wife Pārvatī on a seat, below which is seated Caṇḍēśa. In the two back hands of Śiva are the paraśu and the mṛiga; the right front hand holds the end of a flower garland and the left front one is tying it round the head of Caṇḍēśa. This fine piece of sculpture belongs to the Chōḷa period and is of the first quarter of the eleventh century A.D.