Contents: Volume I : I. Excavations and Explorations: 1. Recent excavations in Madhya Pradesh/K.K. Tripathi. 2. The chalcolithic culture of Madhya Pradesh/R.A. Sharma. 3. Rock paintings of Gujarat/V.H. Sonawane. 4. Archaeological discoveries in District Hardwar/Suryakant Shrivastava. 5. Kutchy Harappans/Raj Ratan Goswami. 6. Acoustic systems as a tool to explore submerged archaeological remains and sites/Alok Tripathi. 7. Excavating of Buddhist stupa in Ladakh/R.C. Agrawala. 8. The site of Erich : an archaeological study/Om Prakash Lal Srivastava. 9. Is black slipped ware--a separate culture?/S. Jamal Hasan. 10. An introduction to Roman Pottery/D. Dayalan. 11. Copper anthropomorphic figures of Bankot in Kumaon/Km. Manju Pant. 12. The upper palaeolithic culture in Gujarat/Saji Thomas. 13. Stoneage cultures around Tarafeni Valley/Biswanath Samanta. II. Inscriptions: 14. Indore copper-plate grant of Vakataka Pravarasena-II, year 23/Chandrashekhar Gupta. 15. Konari copper plates of Pratapamalla : (Kalachuri) year 968/L.S. Nigam and V.P. Nagayach. 16. Recent epigraphical discoveries and their bearing on imperial Paramara history of Malwa/S. Subramonia Iyer. 17. Place name suffixes in Chandella and Paramara inscriptions--a study/T.S. Ravishankar. 18. Brahmi inscriptions from Bandhogarh in sociological perspective/Kirit K. Shah. 19. Paricarakikrta-Sarvatavika Rajasya/S.V. Sohoni. 20. Some early Perso-Arabic epitaphs from Bilram in Uttar Pradesh/Z.A. Desai. 21. Four image inscriptions of Ahmedabad, V.S. 1682/Pravinchandra Parikh & Bharati Shelat. 22. An unusual grammatical pun in a Rastrakuta inscription/Richard Salomon. 23. Unpublished inscriptions of Keladi rulers/K. Gunda Jois. 24. The title Marayan in Tamil inscriptions/A.M. Perumal. 25. Two Kannada stone inscriptions from Bhalavani/V.B. Kolte. 26. Bangkok museum stone inscription of Mahendravarman/B. Ch. Chhabra. 27. The date of Vidyananda and epigraphical evidence/M.A. Dhaky. 28. Epigraphic bearing on early Indian art/B.N. Mukherjee. 29. Glimpses of cultural aspects from the place names in the inscriptions of Maharajas of Valkha/Malati Mahajan. III. Coins: 30. Malawa coinage : a re-appraisal/Parmeshwari Lal Gupta. 31. Inscribed coins from Malhar/Ajit Raizada. 32. Two unpublished Ksatrapa coins from Manasa, Gujarat/Rasesh Jamindar. 33. A Kutch coin of Desalji II/Indra G. Bhagia. 34. Maner glass sealing of Sadhu Tisyaraksita/Brajdeo Prasad Roy. 35. The Indus seals and Atharvaveda/P.V. Pathak. 36. Forgeries of coins in ancient India: literary and epigraphical evidence/Ajay Mitra Shasti. IV. Architecture: 37. Bilpank temple--a myth in stone--(km)/Sushila Pant. 38. Palaces of the imperial Gurjara Pratiharas/Michael D. Willis. 39. Aesthetic enhancement by water display mechanism as seen in Mandu/J. Manuel. 40. Design aspects of Pillars in Hindu temple architecture/Kirti Trivedi. 41. Fort architecture in the Matsya Purana/S.K. Jaiswal. 42. Indian cave art and architecture/K.D. Bajpai. 43. Early epigraphic evidence on Sikhara temples in Malwa/P.K. Agrawala.
Volume II: I. Sculpture: 44. Jaina sculptures from Chhattisgarh/(Mrs) M. Rao. 45. A study of the Buddhist sculptures from Sirpur/B.N. Misra. 46. Patralekha sculptures on mediaeval Indian temples/Shyamlkanti Chakravarti. 47. Jaina bronze-hoard from Hansi/Devendra Handa. 48. A hoard of bronzes from Motupalli (A.P.)/I.K. Sarma. 49. Terracotta art of Akhnur/Y.B. Singh. 50. Pallava elements in Chalukya and Rastrakuta Art/Raju Kalidos. 51. A Vaisnavi Sakti image of Durga Mahisamardini from Prachi valley, Orissa/Ms. Monolina Bhattacharyya. 52. Kusana period sculpture of Mathura : a brief survey/Ms. Rekha Morris. 53. Some early Naga sculptures from North Karnataka/A. Sundara. 54. Sculpture of Savitri Satyavan/Krishna Deva. 55. Domukhi Devi of Kumrahar and Rajendra Nagar Yaksini at Patna/U.N. Roy. II. Political and Socio-Economic History: 56. A re-appraisal of the Aulikara history in the light of the Naigama Kula/Shyamsunder Nigam. 57. Baghelkhand during the great rebellion of 1857/A.H. Nizami. 58. Fresh light on Vajrata and the Rashtrakutas of Malwa/H.S. Thosar. 59. Kharavela-Satakarni synchronism: a political and economic study/V. Sundararama Sastry. 60. Aspects of socio-economic changes in Northern India between the 8th and 11th centuries A.D./B.N. Puri. 61. Position of land ownership in ancient India/Surendra Lal Srivastava. 62. Early weavers and their organisation in India/B. Sree Padma. 63. Herostones in Tamil Nadu/K. Rajan and T. Subramaniam. III. Religious History: 64. Worship of Sungod during Gupta times/Jai Parkash. 65. Tantric forms of Brahmi and Sapta-Sarasvati/P.K. Agrawala. 66. Yaksas in folk art/Amrendra K. Singh. 67. Buddha worship in Andhra through ages/B.S.L. Hanumantha Rao. 68. The eastern and western hill sects of Andhra Buddhism/I.W. Mabbett. 69. Visvarupa Visnu in Gujarat/Haripriya Rangarajan. 70. Visnu in the Brahmanical art of south-east Asia/Upendra Thakur. 71. Dhvaja-Stambha/S.N. Chaturvedi. 72. Kirti-Stambha : a symbol of everlasting fame of Maharana Kumbha/B.M. Jawalia. 73. Mahanubhava religion and philosophy--a short resume/V.B. Kolte. 74. Isvarakrsna and the history of Sankhya/Lallanji Gopal. IV. Literary and Cultural Studies: 75. Three facets of Udayagiri/P.N. Kawthekar. 76. Chamba rumals/Jasvinder Kaur. 77. Ancient Indian theatre/K.K. Shastree. 78. Soma and buffalo-horned anthropomorph/V.S. Pathak. 79. Deconstructive elements in the poetry of Bhartrhari/Greg Bailey. 80. Kavya Tatva anvesanam/K.T. Narasimhan. 81. Authorship of a Stotra attributed to Acarya Sankara/V. Venkatachalam. 82. Indian culture in the West Indies/J.C. Jha. 83. The oldest museum of Gujarat, Kachchh museum, Bhuj/Dilip K. Vaidya. 84. The role of scholarship in contemporary museology/V.H. Bedekar. V. Excavation and Exploration: 85. Prehistoric adwagati: middle palaeolithic and neolithic culture/Shitala Prasad Singh. VI. Inscriptions: 86. A few important questions arising from Semra copper plates/Lavakush Prasad Dwivedi. 87. Gana in Lakshmana temple, Khajuraho/Arvind Kumar Singh. 88. Epigraphical studies in Bundelkhand/Santosh Kumar Bajpai. 89. Minor inscriptions (6th-8th cent. A.D.) from Pabhosa/Vimal Chandra Shukla. 90. Buddhist caityagrha and Hindu temple from Bhongapal of the Nala period/Naresh Kumar Pathak. VII. Religious History: 91. The Ucchhista Ganapatya Sampradaya of Bastar/Shivaprakash Tiwari. 92. Vibhava in Vaisnava Pancaratra tradition/Rampyare Mishra. 93. Proportional representation of citizens and villagers in the early Buddhist congregation/Sita Ram Dubey. 94. Hanuman in medieval art/O.P.L. Srivastava. 95. Depiction of Harihara in the ancient art of Rajasthan/Ratan Chandra Agrawala. 96. Lokesvara of Ajanta--a new study/Sandhya Pandey. 97. A search for Divakar Mitra's retreat in Barauni/Harihar Niwas Dwivedi. 98. Sopacara Puja (ceremonial worship)/Brahmamitra Awasthi. 99. Samarangana Sutradhara/Prabhakar Apte. VIII. Literary and Cultural Studies: 100. Gupta culture and the conception of a golden age/Shankar Goyal. 101. Bhartokta mridang : an integral study/Sudha Malaiya. 102. The unique Dasavatara images of Madhya Pradesh/(Smt) Shail Pradhan and O.P. Misra.
"This is a unique volume dedicated to the various universe of human language, and to the myriad minded Dr. H.V. Trivedi, who, at the ripe young age of 94, is not only the greatest living Indian epigraphist, but is also one of the finest practitioners and exponents of the variety of human articulation. In more than hundred articles, extensive illustrations, a carefully chiselled intellectual biography of Dr. Trivedi, and an encompassing editorial, this volume traverses the entire gamut of the traditional expression of language on the Indian and magna Indian soil. It tries, like the great scholar it celebrates, to draw aside the veils shuttering our senses to help us reassemble our dismembered personalities, and, to resurrect our fragmented consciousness. It explores the boundless potential of the interpretative language for mediation between past and present, nature and culture; for building bridges, through a unified sensibility, between thinking and feeling, reference and referent, sound and sense, denotation and connotation. It adheres to relative rather than absolute certainties, and uses ambivalence and ambiguity as torch lights to illumine the shadowy corridors of cultural history. This is thus a volume offering homage to the amazing possibilities of the human language; and to one of the men who has fulfilled these to the utmost." (jacket)
