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_a700.9540901
_bM2142a
245 1 _aArt and history :
_btexts, contexts and visual representations in ancient and early medieval India /
_cedited by R. Mahalakshmi.
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bBloomsbury India,
_c2020.
300 _axlvi ,352p. :
_bill. ;
_c24cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aI. 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
650 _2LCSH
_aReligious art
_xHistory
_zIndia
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700 1 _a Mahalakshmi, R.
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