TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Mahalakshmi,R.
TI  - Art and history : : texts, contexts and visual representations in ancient and early medieval India 
SN  - 9789388414296 :
U1  - 700.9540901 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Delhi : 
PB  - Bloomsbury India
KW  - LCSH
KW  - Religious art
KW  - History
KW  - India
N1  - Includes index; I. Visualising Power: Sacred and Temporal --1. Power of Image and Image of Power in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands: Case Studies of Bactrian Greeks and the Indo-Greeks -Suchandra Ghosh -- 2. The Abhiraka Coin: Search for a New Identity -Dev Kumar Jhanjh -- 3. Emblems of Faith, Monuments of Authority: Brahmanical Iconography in the Temples of the Calukyas of Badami-Niharika K. Sankrityayan -- 4. Controlling the Waters: Divine Imagery and Royal Enterprise in Early Medieval Tamil Nadu -R. Mahalakshmi

II. Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: Forms, Meanings and Symbols -- 5. Giving Akara to the Goddess: Kali in Textual and Visual Traditions-Sneha Ganguly -- 6. Prajñaparamita: The Making of the First Buddhist Goddess-Megha Yadav -- 7. Representation of Sixteen Mahavidya in the Dilwara Jaina Temple -Virendra Singh Bithoo
III. Religious Traditions, Visual Representations and Regional Contexts -- 
8. Icons and Patterns of Worship from the Fringes of South India: The Religious Landscape of Northern Tamil Nadu -V. Selvakumar -- 9. From Viraja Tirtha to 'Allegorical' Nabhi Gaya: Exploring the Changing Religious Landscape of Jajpur (Sixth to Fourteenth Centuries CE) -Umakanta Mishra -- 10. Donors of Kurkihar Images: An Investigation into Their Socioeconomic Background -Sayantani Pal -- IV. Social Imaginaries and the Ocular -- 11. The Marriage Rite of S´iva-Parvati: Specimens of Early Medieval Indian Temple Art -Neha Singh -- 12. Imagery of Love Making: Representation of the Erotic Body in the Temples of Early Medieval Odisha
-Sujata Rakshit -- 13. Of Men, Stones and Stories: Revisiting the Virakals of South India -Malavika Binny -- 
V. Prescriptions and Representations -- 
14. The Ga?a Who Consumed Himself: Kirtimukha in North Indian Literature and Art, 400 CE –900 CE
-Anisha Saxena 291 -- 15. Buddhist Theory of Representation-Y.S. Alone
ER  -