The Colas c36.66

c36.66

Fig. 52. Dakṣiṇāmūrti, in the Aṅgāḷamman shrine, Kāveripākkam, North Arcot District. Śiva is seated in the *utkuṭikāsana* on a pedestal. A pair of deer and a serpent are carved on the pedestal. Points of interest in the sculpture are the big *jaṭābhāra* in curls or knots, the *vastrayajñōpavīta* and the leaves of the book of Cosmic Wisdom (Vedas) in the hand. The general treatment of the figure is characteristic of figures of earlier period. At Kāveripākkam there was a vast quantity of antiquities of Pallava and Cōḷa times.