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1 online resource (xlvi, 352 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustratons (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Images, Tables and Figure -- Acknowledgements -- Visual Representations as Historical Source in Ancient and Early Medieval India: An Introduction -- 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 -- 2. The Ābhīraka Coin: Search for a New Identity -- 3. Emblems of Faith, Monuments of Authority: Brahmanical Iconography in the Temples of the Cālukyas of Badami |
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4. Controlling the Waters: Divine Imagery and Royal Enterprise in Early Medieval Tamil Nadu -- II. Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: Forms, Meanings and Symbols -- 5. Giving Ākāra to the Goddess: Kālī in Textual and Visual Traditions -- 6. Prajñāpāramitā: The Making of the First Buddhist Goddess -- 7. Representation of Sixteen Mahāvidyā in the Dilwara Jaina Temple -- 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 |
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9. From Virajā Tīrtha to 'Allegorical' Nābhi Gayā: Exploring the Changing Religious Landscape of Jajpur (Sixth to Fourteenth Centuries CE -- 10. Donors of Kurkihar Images: An Investigation into Their Socioeconomic Background -- IV. Social Imaginaries and the Ocular -- 11. The Marriage Rite of Śiva-Pārvatī: Specimens of Early Medieval Indian Temple Art -- 12. Imagery of Love Making: Representation of the Erotic Body in the Temples of Early Medieval Odisha -- 13. Of Men, Stones and Stories: Revisiting the Vīrakals of South India -- V. Prescriptions and Representations |
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14. The Gaṇa Who Consumed Himself: Kīrtimukha in North Indian Literature and Art, 400 CE-900 CE -- 15. Buddhist Theory of Representation -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art, Indic -- History.
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Religious art -- India.
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Art, Indic |
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Religious art |
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India https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdx47cDXrRhBXHtbvPwC |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Mahalakshmi, R., editor, author of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9789388414302 9388414306 (OCoLC)1107862608 |
| ISBN |
9789388414319 (electronic bk.) |
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9388414314 (electronic bk.) |
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9789388414302 |
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9388414306 |
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