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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Group of Monuments at Pattadakal' has mentioned 'Hindu' in the following places:
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Pattadakal, also called Paxe1xb9xadxe1xb9xadadakallu or Raktapura, is a complex of 7th and 8th century CE Hindu and Jain temples in northern Karnataka (India). | WIKI |
[8][9] The Virupaksha temple is an active house of Hindu worship. | WIKI |
In total, there are over 150 Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist monuments, and archaeological discoveries, dating from the 4th to 10th century CE, in addition to pre-historic dolmens and cave paintings that are preserved at the Pattadakal-Badami-Aihole site. | WIKI |
[19][20] Although the area was not a capital region, nor in proximity to one, numerous sources such as inscriptions, contemporaneous texts and the architectural style indicate that, from the 9th to 12th centuries, new Hindu, Jain and Buddhist temples and monasteries continued to be built in the Pattadakal region. | WIKI |
The monuments at Pattadakal are evidence of the existence, and the history, of interaction between the early northern and southern styles of Hindu arts. | WIKI |
There are ten major temples at Pattadakal, nine Hindu and one Jain, along with numerous small shrines and plinths. | WIKI |
The nine Hindu temples are all dedicated to Shiva, and are on the banks of Malaprabha river. | WIKI |
The sanctum has a covered circumambulatory path (pradakshina patha), indicating that this Hindu tradition was well established by 7th to 8th century. | WIKI |
[33] The inscriptions found in this and other temples mention sponsor names from different centuries, including those of Hindu queens, suggesting they actively supported the temple architecture and arts. | WIKI |
The legends of Hindu epics and the Puranas are depicted on the temple pillars in the community hall. | WIKI |
[43] The rasa lila of Krishna, whose stories are found in the Bhagavata Purana, are shown on friezes as are Hindu fables from the Panchatantra. | WIKI |
[43][45] Like other Hindu temples, the friezes of the Mallikarjuna temple show kama and mithuna scenes of amorous couples. | WIKI |
[51] The third storey is the simplest, having only parapet kutas, a kuta roof with each face decorated with kudus xe2x80x93 a structure common in later Dravidian architecture Hindu temples. | WIKI |
[55] Other than Hindu gods and goddesses, numerous panels show depict people either as couples, in courtship and mithuna, or as individuals wearing jewellery or carrying work implements. | WIKI |
According to art historian Cathleen Cummings, the monuments at Pattadakal are a historically significant example of religion, society, and culture, particularly Hindu and Jain, in the Deccan region and is an expression of Hindu kingship and religious worldview of 8th-century India. | WIKI |
She writes that the artisans express the conflicting concepts of Dharma (duty, virtue, righteousness) and Moksha (liberation) in Hindu theology, particularly Pashupata Shaivism. | WIKI |
Furthermore, she states that the significance lies not just within individual images but also in their relative location and sequence as well how it expresses the historic tension in Hindu religious tradition between the stately life of the householder and the life of the renouncer monk. | WIKI |