Kalahasti : a town in north-eastern Chittoor district (see Tiruvannamalai).
... retain their dependence on the sacred motive, and rather in some place where there is room for a free background of Nature. I have before me two prints which can well serve the purpose, a temple at Kalahasti, a temple at Sinhachalam, two buildings entirely different in treatment and yet one in the ground and Page 276 the universal motive. The straight way here is not to detach the temple from ...
... lived greatly", 497; positive ideal of Indian culture, 498; Western charge against Indian culture, 498; India and Western Art, 498-9; "form" in Indian art, 499; India's sacred architecture, 500; Kalahasti & Simhachalam, 500; Taj, mosques, tombs, 500; sculpture & painting, 501ff, 502; Olympian and Indian gods, 501 ;Ajanta marvels, 503; the adoration group of Mother & Child, 503; the Great Renunciation ...
... paintings in the crude hours of daily life". 27 Perhaps, it is easier to appreciate the mystical tremendum of Indian sacred architecture by viewing in a mood of tranced attention the temples at Kalahasti and Simhachalam: The straight way here is not to detach the temple from its surroundings, but to see it in unity with the sky and low-lying landscape or with the sky and hills around and ...
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