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This Athiymān king was a descendant of the Satyaputra dynasty mentioned in Asoka's edicts. [13] The inscription records the endowment of a cave-shelter by the chieftain Atiyan Netuman Anci who sports the title Satiyaputo. The inscription gives the name of his clan (Atiyan), of his father (Netuman) and of himself (Anci).
Athiyaman Neduman Anji was one of the most powerful Velir kings of the Sangam era who ruled the region called Mazhanadu. [1] A famous royal Athiyaman family dynasty was the contemporary and the patron of poet Avvaiyar of the Sangam period. [ 2 ]
Defeat against Athiyaman. In 118 CE, he waged war on Thagadoor against the famous Athiyamān Nedumān Añci. It was an attempt fuelled by his longtime desire to become an emperor equivalent in power to the Cholas. After a fierce battle, Kāri would lose Kovalur to Athiyamān and would only regain it much later after Peruncheral Irumporai sacks ...
Avvaiyar was a Tamil poet who lived during the period of Kambar and Ottakoothar during the reign of the Chola dynasty in the twelfth century. [1] She is often imagined as an old and intelligent lady by Tamil people. Many poems and the Avvai Kural, comprising 310 kurals in 31 chapters, belong to this period.
The Būyids, also an Iranian dynasty, became great patrons of art and architecture, as a way to enhance their prestige and to compensate for their humble origins. Through art, they endeavoured to present themselves as the heirs to the pre-Islamic tradition of kingship in Iran.
This reflects the tradition of Chinese folk art with commercial intent, sold to ordinary households for New Lunar Year festivities. [ 3 ] Wang Junfu's Ten Thousand Nations Coming to Pay Tribute (萬國來朝圖) also depicts various foreign countries visiting the Imperial court, but in a rather grotesque manner.
Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy (also called 步輦圖, Bùniǎn Tú ) [1] is a painting on silk by Yan Liben to show the friendly encounter between the Tang dynasty and Tibet. The painting is 129 centimetres (51 in) long by 38.5 centimetres (15.2 in) wide. [2] Bunian Tu is in The Palace Museum in Beijing. [3]
Muqi, Detail of dusk over fisher's village, from the handscroll "Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang", circa 1250, Collected in Nezu Art MuseumMuqi or Muxi (Chinese: 牧谿; Japanese: Mokkei; 1210?–1269?), also known as Fachang (Chinese: 法常), was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and painter who lived in the 13th century, around the end of the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279).