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This two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts—both sacred and scientific. It depicts the Hindu Temple as not merely a heap of brick, stone or wood but a visible symbol of aspirations of pious men and women, the throbbings of their hearts in religious fervor and their endeavor for the attainment of salvation.
The first four parts of the work are ...
The 180 reproductions which illustrate this book give a general survey of the arts of Hindu and Buddhist India.
The present book opens the vast treasury of knowledge to the explorer in the domain of art. It expounds permanent outstanding qualities of the fabric Indian sculpture as conditioned by the Indian craftsman.
For Dr. Stella Kramrisch, who has selected the paintings and written the text that accompanies them. Painted delight is the most recent in remarkable sequence of projects devoted to the art of India.