Temple imagery from early mediaeval peninsular India

Name: Temple imagery from early mediaeval peninsular India
Author: Archana Verma

Author

Archana Verma

Publisher

Ashgate

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Title and Author

Temple imagery from early mediaeval peninsular India / Archana Verma

Publication Details

فارنهام : Ashgate، 2011م

Physical Description

x, 300 p.: ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

Hindu art -- India
Art, Medieval -- India
Hindu temples -- India
Hindu symbolism

Language

انگلیسی

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]582[ - 692( and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Changing perceptions of divine power; the evolution of religious idiom in peninsular India -- Puranic pantheons and their iconography (A.D. 600 - 1200) -- Heroic discours: concepts and images in literature and iconography (early historical and early medieval periods) -- Imaging royal power in visual and verbal narrative -- Pantheons of power -- iconographic programme in royal temples -- Reflections

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