Exploring Indian Art, Architecture and Epigraphy: Essays in Honour of Prof. Shrinivas V. Padigar (2 Vol-Set)

This festschrift in two volumes comprises of fifty-four original research articles contributed by senior and young scholars arranged in two sections.

The first section includes thirty-seven papers on a wide range of themes on Indic art and architecture from the Maurya to the post-Vijayanagara periods: reflections on Buddhist and Hindu architecture, impacts of regional architectures styles, bronzes and stone sculptures, Jaina conceptual peculiarities, memorial stones, narrative visuals, Kapalika and Kalamukha imagery, wooden architecture, paintings from Hampi, Lepakshi, Tiruvarur, Avudaiyarkovil, art-historiographical legacy, social reflection in art and Indian cultural links abroad. In the second section are seventeen papers on analysis of the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions, newly discovered inscriptions, Jaina and Pasupata socio-cultural aspects, Chola villages and economy, early historical scripts and a manuscript on mathematical puzzles.

The book will be useful alike to the connoisseurs and researchers of Indian art and architecture, epigraphists and Indologists.