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Khajuraho Unknown is a book about Khajuraho temple-complex, a world heritage, which presents before us sculpture as manifestation f refinement rekindling creative fire all around us. Khajuraho are has the lucidity of structure with passionate unrest, riotous activity and a preference for vast, wild and the predominantly picturesque. The sculptors not only have portrayed individual figures but turned sculpture to compositions with innumerable legends invading the ...
The Devi Mahatamya in pictorial detail in this volume is a study of Devi Shakti--the supreme feminine deity. She is Dashamahavidya of the Bhairavas, and also Katyayini, Kalaratri and Mahagauri. As Shiva's Adishakti, she is Gayatri, the Goddess of all science and knowledge. She finds origin in Vedas as Gayatri Mata. She is the supreme power of Markandeya Purana. She is mind and matter both. First known as Rudrapatni, she acquires the epithets of Arya, Bhagavati, ...
Rasamanjari, The Nectarous Ocean, is a collection of paintings originating from Bhanudatta fourteenth century work of the same name describing Shringara Rasa in Basohli style of Pahari Painting produced in three versions of which the present one of A.D. 1695 is more refined, mature and perfect as compared to the other two. Basohli art has left a mark on the cultural horizon of India with these miniatures of the highest aesthetic appeal. The 'Rasamanjari' appeared ...