Temple imagery from early mediaeval peninsular India
By: Archana Verma
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781409430292
Subjects: Hindu art; Hindu temples; Medieval Art; Hindu symbolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Changing perceptions of divine power ; the evolution of religious idiom in peninsular India; title: Puranic pantheons and their iconography (A.D. 600-1200); title: Heroic discourse : concepts and images in literature and iconography (early historical and early medieval periods); title: Imaging royal power in visual and verbal narrative; title: Pantheons of power-iconographic programme in royal temples; title: Reflections.