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tied on the shoulder. The parasol above has not been leg that is hanging down-contrary to the Chola pat-
finished. tern (Cholisvaram, Figure 6).
This last pattern of a seated Brahma in the northern A different type of Brahma image, carved in the
sanctum niche is or was formerly applied in at least six round, was first discussed by 0. C. Gangoly. In I928
temples of the late ninth century in the adjoining north- he published the sculpture in The Metropolitan Mu-
ern districts of North Arcot and Chingleput, which seum of Art (Figures 8, 9)12 and compared it to a very
represent a local offshoot of the Late Pallava style." similar one in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo
In all six reliefs the back panel has been retained and (Figures io, i ), and to yet another, with two arms,
fills most or all of the niche. In all of them it is the left from the temple Kandiyur Tanjavur district, now
in
of
i . Tiruttani: D. Barrett, Tiruttani (Bombay, 1958) pl. 2. Southern India," Rupam 35-36 [1928] pp. 62-64, fig. F; Bala-
Tirukkallukkunram: Balasubrahmanyam, Early Chola Art, fig. subrahmanyam, Early Chola Art, p. 195) surely were in devakoshta
103 c. Tirupparkkadal: Balasubrahmanyam, Early Chola Art, fig. as well.
89 b. Takkolam: Balasubrahmanyam, Early Chola Art, fig. 94. The 12. 0. C. Gangoly, "Some Images of Brahma of the Chola
images from Kaveripakkam (Barrett, Tiruttani, pl. I8) and Tiru- Period," Rupam 35-36 (1928) pp. 29-30, frontispiece, fig. A.
vakkarai (0. C. Gangoly, "A Group of Stone Sculptures from

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