Pallava period (Social and Cultural History)
by S. Krishnamurthy | 2017 | 143,765 words
This study examines the Social and Cultural History of the Pallava period (as gleaned through the Sculptural Art). The Pallavas (6th-9th century A.D.) mainly ruled over the Tondaimandalam (Tondai Nadu) region in the Northern part of Tamil Nadu (South-India). The Pallava dynasty ensured a golden age of architecture, arts, and spirituality and while ...
Head-dress of Children
No particular head-dress can be seen worn by the children depicted in the Govardhanadhari panel at Mamallapuram, except for the forehead band seen worn by a child. It seems that children of the royal family used to wear either a short conical head dress similar to that seen adorning the head of the child Skanda (fig. 470) in several of the Somaskanda panels or a turban, like the one worn by young Nandivarman II (fig. 163) as shown in the historical narrative panels carved on the walls of the cloister mandapa, in the Vaikunthaperumal temple at Kanchipuram.