Balaji
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This is a pen and ink sketch done on location in 2015, during a very enjoyable heritage tour of the Chettinad region in Southern India. A very bitter war in the 13th century AD between Shaivites and Vaishnavites (two Hindu sects) resulted in a neighbouring Hoysala king having to arbitrate and get them to partition a temple, and thus resolve their differences. This is one of the two resultant temples. Both temples have identical stone inscriptions recording the agreement that was reached....a contract set in stone!
