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Jens Nordlunde · 31st July 2016, 01:21 PM

Suddenly I was not certain if the drawing and the picture comes from the same place, so I double checked it.
Mitra in his book writes that the drawing is from the Gauri temple in Bhuwanesvara Orissa.
Donaldson, on the other hand, writes that the picture is from the sout side of the jagamohana - which as far as I know is a temple structure, and not a name of a temple.
So either the drawing has been made from the statue shown, or from another statue, which would mean that there must be at least two statues showing the same katar.
The Kedar Gauri temple was started by king Yayati Kesari III of the Kesari dynasty, and completed by his son Lalatendu Kesari in the 10th century.
Donaldson, however, dates the statue to last half of the 11th century, and as he does not mention from which temple the statue is, it may be possible that it is two different statues.

31st July 2016, 01:21 PM	#29
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	Suddenly I was not certain if the drawing and the picture comes from the same place, so I double checked it. Mitra in his book writes that the drawing is from the Gauri temple in Bhuwanesvara Orissa. Donaldson, on the other hand, writes that the picture is from the sout side of the jagamohana - which as far as I know is a temple structure, and not a name of a temple. So either the drawing has been made from the statue shown, or from another statue, which would mean that there must be at least two statues showing the same katar. The Kedar Gauri temple was started by king Yayati Kesari III of the Kesari dynasty, and completed by his son Lalatendu Kesari in the 10th century. Donaldson, however, dates the statue to last half of the 11th century, and as he does not mention from which temple the statue is, it may be possible that it is two different statues. Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 31st July 2016 at 02:00 PM.