Shakti: an exploration of the divine feminine, foreword by Shashi Tharoor,

Chitgopekar, Nilima

ISBN: 9789388372992, 9388372999

Shakti is an exploration of the many facets of the Goddess across time periods, regions, and cultures in the Indian subcontinent. It unravels Her forms, philosophy, belief systems, mythology, folktales, rituals, and customs.

Iconography of Arddhanarisvara from Odishan temples: 6th to 13th century

Subuddhi, Umakanta

ISBN: 9788177025071, 8177025074

The book presents an account of the Arddhanarisvara images of Odisha alongwith the temples where they are adorning the exterior walls and bring out the evolution in their iconography. The image, which is elegant looking and exquisitely beautiful, integrates artistic excellence with the prevailing religious ideas on Saivism as recorded in the Agamas and Puranas.

A descriptive catalogue of the Buddhist and Hindu sculptures in the Bangladesh National Museum

ISBN: 9789843390868, 9843390865

This catalogue, one of several planned by the Bangladesh National Museum, contains a representative selection of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture in the Bangladesh National Museum. Though the first image acquired for the Museum in 1914, today the Department of History and Classical Art holds a substantial number of sculptures. One hundred and eighty different objects from this collection have been ...