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245			_aArt and history: texts, contexts and visual representations in ancient and early medieval India/ _cedited by R. Mahalakshmi.
260			_aNew Delhi: _bBloomsbury, _c2020.
300			_axlvi, 352 p.
505			_aVisual representations as historical source in ancient and early medieval India: an introcuction / R. Mahalakshmi -- Visualising power: sacred and temporal -- Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: forms, meanings and symbols -- Religious traditions, visual representations and regional contexts -- Social imaginaries and the ocular -- Prescriptions and representations. Visual representations as historical source in ancient and early medieval India: an introduction / R. Mahalakshmi -- Visualising power: sacred and temporal. Power of image and image of power in the Indo-Iranian borderlands: case studies of Bactrian Greeks and the Indo-Greeks / Suchandra Ghosh -- The Abhiraka coin: search for a new identity / Dev Kumar Jhanjh -- Emblems of faith, monuments of authority: Brahmanical iconography in the temples of the Calukyas of Badami / Niharika K. Sankrityayan -- Controlling the waters: divine imagery and royal enterprise in early medieval Tamil Nadu / R. Mahalakshmi -- Conceptualising the divine feminine: forms, meanings and symbols. Giving Akara to the goddess: Kali in textual and visual traditions / Sneha Ganguly -- Prajñaparamita: the making of the first Buddhist goddess / Megha Yadav -- Representation of sixteen Mahavidya in the Dilwara Jaina temple / Virendra Singh Bithoo -- Religious traditions, visual representations and regional contexts. Icons and patterns of worship from the fringes of South India: the religious landscape of Northern Tamil Nadu / V. Selvakumar -- From Viraja Tirtha to 'allegorical' Nabhi Gaya: exploring the changing religious landscape of Jajpur (sixth to fourteenth centuries CE) / Umakanta Mishra -- Donors of Kurkihar images: an investigation into their socioeconomic background / Sayantani Pal -- Social imaginaries and the ocular. The marriage rite of Siva-Parvati: Specimens of early medieval Indian temple art / Neha Singh -- Imagery of love making: representation of the erotic body in the temples of early medieval Odisha / Sujata Rakshit -- Of men, stones and stories: revisiting the virakals of South India / Malavika Binny -- Prescriptions and representations. The gaṇa who consumed himself: Kirtimukha in North Indian literature and art, 400 CE–900 CE / Anisha Saxena -- Buddhist theory of representation / Y.S. Alone.
650			_a Art, Indic -- History. Religious art -- India. Art, Indic. _91240
700			_a Mahalakshmi, R.,ed. _91903
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