Studies in Jaina Art and Iconography and Allied Subjects in Honour of Dr. U.P. Shah/Chief editor : R.T. Vyas. 1995, 366 p., 72 illus, $92.
Contents: 1. Dr. Umakant P. Shah: an indologist and art historian/Ratan Parimoo. 2. Dr. U.P. Shah--some reflections/R.N. Mehta. 3. Jaina iconography: evolution and appraisal/Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari. 4. Two Jain Yantras of the fifteenth century/Pratapaditya Pal. 5. Vaddamanu--an early Jaina site in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh/M. Kasturibai and J. Varaprasada Rao. 6. Jain epistemology/R.T. Vyas. 7. Some educational implications of Jain philosophy/Harshad V. Vyas. 8. Doctrine of karma and Jaina ethics/H.M. Joshi. 9. The regional tradition of early medieval Sapta Matrka sculptures in western India (Rajasthan and Gujarat)/Shivaji K. Panikkar. 10. Jaina sculptures from Rohtak/Devendra Handa. 11. A rare marble sculpture of Naminatha from Bhatinda, district Bhatinda, Punjab/D.R. Gehlot. 12. Indian cave-temple architecture: an assessment/K.D. Bajpai. 13. Local history and Chaitya Paripati/R.N. Mehta. 14. Hayagriva at Khajuraho/Devangana Desai. 15. A proposed methodology for the study of system of proportions in Indian temple architecture--the case study of Sunak Temple//Ratan Parimoo. 16. On some of the iconometric details in the Samarangana-Sutradhara of Bhojadeva/N.M. Kansara. 17. Khajuraho: beginning of new iconological cycle/Deepak Kannal. 18. Invocations and petitions in the Soma hymns of Rgveda-Samhita IX/J. Gonda. 19. The notion of distinctive features in Sanskrit phonetics/Madhav M. Deshpande. 20. Mamaki and the altindische grammatik/Dipak Bhattacharya. 21. A note on Asti/G. Cardona. 22. Ramayana and public discourse in medieval India/Sheldon Pollock. 23. The cult of Parasurama and its popularity in Orissa/Thomas Eugene Donaldson. 24. Manuscript sources for old Gujarati/old western Rajasthani dialectology/Ernest Bender. 25. On the status of old Indo-Aryan reconstructions/S.M. Katre. 26. Lists of the major Puranas as obtained in the Puranas/H.G. Shastri. 27. Ramayana manuscripts/John Brockington. 28. A note on passages 9 and 13 of appendix I of the Uttarakanda/C. Lakshmi Narasimha Moorty. 29. Hagiography and sects in the medieval Vaisnava Bhakti of western India/Francoise Mallison. 30. Sanskrit geographical tables/David Pingree. 31. Modern Sanskrit plays: a brief survey/A.N. Jani. 32. The Vivarta/Ram Murti Sharma. 33. Some unconventional views of Rasa/V.M. Kulkarni. 34. Some minor Ramayana-poets in the medieval Gujarati literature/Devdatta Joshi. 35. Puranic etymologies: some remarks/S.G. Kantawala. 36. 'Sita-Tyaga'--whether Kalidasa wrote it first?/Gautam Patel. 37. Indo-European beliefs in classical Greek and Indian drama/Bharat Gupt. 38. Marital status of the Nymph Urvasi in Kalidasa's Vikramorvasiyam/Rajendra Nanavati. 39. Contents of Ramayana--some observations/M.M. Pathak. 40. The compound verb in Gujarati and its use in connected text/Peter Edwin Hook. 41. New light on the ancient history of Kausambi/Ajay Mitra Shastri. 42. A survey of manuscript--collections in Gujarat/Siddharth Yeshwant Wakankar.