Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Appar
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Appar
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Alternate Title:
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Appar Tirunavukkarasar Nayanar
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Image View:
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Overall view; standing with a "uzhavaram," a small hoe to clean temple paths
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Creator:
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unknown (Indian)
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Location:
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repository: Government Museum and National Art Gallery (Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India) Acc.No. 343
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Location Note:
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formerly Madras; from Vembavur, Perambalur Taluk, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu
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GPS:
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+13.07065+80.257289
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Date:
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ca. 12th century (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Indian
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Style Period:
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Chola
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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bronze
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Measurements:
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57 cm (height)
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Description:
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Appar ("Father") was one of the most important Nayanars, a group of 63 saints (also saint poets) in the 6th to 8th century who were devoted to the Hindu god Shiva in Tamil Nadu. His full name includes Tirunavukkarasar ("King of the Tongue, Lord of Language"); he was a seventh-century Saiva Tamil poet-saint. This poetry is expressed as hymns; some are set to various panns, the melodic modes of ancient Tamil music. As a boy Appar joined a Jain monastery but later returned to Saivaism. Appar is frequently shown standing, hands in the Anjali mudra, with a "uzhavaram" in the crook of his arm. The uzhavaram is portrayed as a hoe, spade or sometimes broom, but it refers to the service of cleaning the pathways to a temple. Statue from Vembavur, Perambalur Taluk, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu. (Source: Sridhar, T.S., editor; Exhibition on Chola Bronzes, Chennai: State Department of Archaeology, 2011 ([online at http://210.212.62.26/pdf_files/books/Chola%20Bronzes%20part%20001.pdf]))
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Collection:
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Archivision Additional Module Ten
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Identifier:
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7A2-IN-GMC-APP-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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