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The actor lay quite still on the stage. He was playing dead. The audience, though, would have none of it. Shouts of encore rent the air. But it was neither the actor nor the character that evoked this reaction — it was the song he had sung before his ‘death’. The audience wanted to hear the song all over again. So the ‘dead’ person arose, sang once more and promptly dropped
Abhilashitartha Chintamani, also known as Manasollasa, compiled by the Kalyan Chalukya king Someshwara III, dedicated a complete chapter to the techniques and making of mural paintings ( bhitti chitra). The Vijayanagara kings continued the patronisation of the mural painting tradition. Foreign travel accounts about Hampi say that many temples and palaces were decorated with paintings. Hampi was an important religious centre even before the Vijayanagara period. God Virupaksha, a focal point of the Vijayanagara Hampi city, has been mentioned in Kalyan Chalukya inscriptions. The 12th century Ka...