mamalla in A Sentence

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    Lunch today will be at Mamalla Heritage.

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    seems to have continued for at least two generations after Mamalla, that is, till about AD 700 when,

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    This was perhaps commenced by Mamalla, as indicated by the label inscribed on the eastern side of the second tala,

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    Such pioneering work of making cut- out vimana temples was inaugurated: by Mamalla Narasimhavarman II( 630- 668), and the monoliths were taken to different degrees of finish.

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    These ornate cave- temples that Mamalla initiated were mostly completed in stages by his immediate successors for two generations, who also created a few monuments in the same style and at the same place.

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    The trimurti cave- temple at Mahabalipuram differs from the other rock- cut mandapa- type cave- temples of the Mahendra or Mamalla style, in that it represents only the vimana- or shrine- fronts of three contiguous units in bold relief without the frontal mandapa component.

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    This was perhaps commenced by Mamalla, as indicated by the label inscribed on the eastern side of the second tala, and was brought to its present stage of completion with the consecration of the top tala by Paramesvaravarman, as the labels on the top tala would denote.

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    Mahendra' s son, Narasimhavarman Mamalla( 630- 68) and his lineal successors, Mahendravarman II( 668- 72), Paramesvara I( 672- 700), and Rajasimha( 700- 728) continued the tradition started by Mahendra I and excavated a number of cave- temples in the Mahendra style in the course of the century.

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    It will be seen that the hara in most of the Mamalla- style cave- temples is a string of oblong salas alone, and the kutas at the extremes of each side, coinciding with the corners and hence called karnakutas, are to be found for the first time in the Pancha Pandava cave- temple.

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    The carving of these monolith vimanas, all confined to Mahabalipuram, seems to have continued for at least two generations after Mamalla, that is, till about AD 700 when, perhaps, sculptures in bas- relief of the principal deities were carved in the sanctuaries of two of these vimanasthe Draupadi ratha and the top storey of the Dharmaraja ratha.

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