Hyderabad: ‘Extraordinary Testimony’ Ramappa for Kakatiyas’s cultural tradition has helped him get the tag of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
UNESCO rules call for at least one meeting of 10 registered criteria for each monument or site to qualify for world heritage tags.
The Telangana government sent three criteria to support his request to inclose the 13th century Ramappa temple complex in the Muluugu district in the list.
These three criteria include representing human creative genius masterpieces; Show important exchanges of human values, during the time span or in the field of world culture, in the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or landscape design; And give a unique testimony or at least extraordinary for living or civilizational traditions or who have disappeared.
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Unesco expert panel, discussed three Ramappa criteria and rejected the first two.
But agreed upon, although in part, Ramappa Temple meets the third criteria that became a ‘extraordinary testimony’.
Icomos in his report submitted to the 44th session that was extended by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Fuzhou in China said the third criterion was justified “on the grounds that the Temple of Rudreshwara (Ramappa) was the best example of the art tradition of Kakatiya, architecture and technology”.
“The efforts of Kakatiya craftsmen to interpret and integrate the regional customs dance motives and Kakatiya’s cultural traditions into prominent marginal and textual representation as the extraordinary testimony of popular cultural arts in Kakatiya times,” said Icomos, added that the temple was made as a harmonious ensemble Natural environment, architecture, sculpture, ritual and dance – five elements that are complementary in defining the temple ritual space.
ICOMOS is considered that the criteria 3 shows strong potential to be fulfilled so the related attributes are fully included in the property (Ramappa Temple), while the criteria 2 has not been fulfilled and the criteria 1 will require further comparative support to show its potential.
Meanwhile, it does reflect Kakatiya’s cultural tradition, such as detailed statues representing local ritual and customs dances and have architectural functions, so that it connects various elements, the integration of the temple to the preserved environmental environment and therefore is needed that Ramappa Temple is approached in the context This larger, the report suggests.