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Subject: Re: [agathiyar] KaNNaki statues
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At 09:32 PM 12/18/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Read the following news item. While the KaNNahi statue
>being talked about is modern, (Have heard that it was
>modeled after the cinema actress, Vijayalakshmi who acted
>as Kannaki on the screen), want to know of studies on
>folk or classical bronzes of Kannaki, goddess of chastity.
>
>I know of two statues of KaNNaki, both from Sri Lanka:
>
>one is quite an ancient one, excavated from the Abhayagiri vihAram,
>and dated to 6th century. There is some wrong information
>about its identification in an exhibition catalog from
>Wasington, D.C. exhibition says "ArdhanArIshvara ?".
>It's definitel the Cilambu heroine, Kannaki.
>(will give the picture soon). As you know, the mahAyAna
>practised at Abhayagiri vihAra was cleansed out then, and
>is known to history as Vaituya heresy.
>
>Another bronze is also from Lanka, published in K. Zvelebil's
>translation of CilappatikAram into Czech.


Here is one of the statues which are mentioned above:

http://www.geocities.com/visva.geo/kannagi3.html

The picture and the text at the bottom are from
Ananda Coomarasamy's 'History of Indian and Indonesian Art'.

>
>Any info on old statues of Kannaki from India or elsewhere
>is much appreciated.

There are two more statues of KaNNagi.

Regards

JayBee


>
>Thanks,
>N. Ganesan
>
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