| Temples & Legends of Bengal |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
BHATTAMATI TEMPLE |
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| The two panels
facing each other at the bottom of the front wall show the same superb execution on the
part of the artists in giving life to mundane matters. On one side the panel shows the
Nawab's soldiers all arrayed and on the other the British soldiers with their helmets,
kit-bags etc, and on the march for a fight. The shifting political scenes in Bengal in the
eighteenth century give the theme to the artists and they have done a wonderful job.The
soldiers on either side show gravity, enthusiasm and alertness. The artists have been equally successful in depicting other types of social and domestic scenes. These are on the walls above the doors. Some of the sculptured figures show a Guru followed by his disciples, intimate love-making between the king and the queen,musicians playing mridanaga and sehnai, girls engaged in dancing and the Nawab indulging in smoking tobacco, the half- inclined Nawab with his satellites, marriage under the bridal canopy with a number of girls participating in the revelry etc. |
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