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This work is a well-researched attempt to analyse the Vaisnava iconography of Orissa which is unique in that there are to be found an overwhelming number of Visnu images in the region despite paucity of Visnu temples and inscriptional evidence suggesting royal patronage. Dr. Donaldson here undertakes a detailed study under four heads: Vaisnava iconography proper including Hari-Hara and other composite images and those of Visnu’s female ...
The present book on the Iconography of the Buddhist Sculpture of Orissa utilizes the author's expertise of Orissan Brahmanical Art to develop a similar consistent and reliable iconographic and stylistic evolution for the Buddhist Arts of Orissa and its adherence to, or deviation from, surviving textual icono-graphic peculiarities. There is little doubt that Orissa played a major role in the creation, development and dissemination of Buddhist doctrines and ...
The emergence of Tantrism and Saktism in the sixth-seventh centuries in ancient India symbolized a belief in fertility worship, worship of the female principle with the Devi/Goddess supreme as the Energy/Power – the substance of everything, pervading everything. In Orissa in particular, the sakta/tantra cults played a major role in the religion and culture of the region and this is testified by its many temples and sculptural wonders therein. ...
India is an ancient culture replete with mythological folklore and its depiction in sculptural art on the walls of temples down South. Images of love-making including the figures of Kama, the god of love and Siva and Parvati, the eternal couple dominate the iconography and decorative patterns on the walls of Orissan temples. Drawing material from several ancient epics and scriptures, Donaldson goes into the lives and loves of Kama in detail, explaining his ...