Niranjana: Art, Architecture and Ideas: Festschrift in Honour of Prof. S. Nagaraju
Contents: Preface. Reminiscences. Art and Architecture. 1. Early images of Vishnu and Narasimha from Karnataka – an art historical revisit/R.H. Kulkarni. 2. Some features of the architecture of the Kakatiyas/Varsha Shirgaonkar. 3. Temples at Surwaya – Shivpuri Madhya Pradesh/Neeta Yadav. 4. The Temples of Madhya Pradesh: A study of Nagara style architecture and historical context/Mashkoor Ahmad Quadri and Shivani Jain. 5. Siddheswara temple at Dhom: the architectural features/Ravindra Shriram Thipse. 6. The two innovative three-cellae early medieval temples of Kolhapur/Yogesh Prabhudesai. 7. The European architectural styles in Bandra (1535-1947)/Abhay Chitale. 8. Recent survey of group of Temples at Deogaon Rock-Shelter (Dev-Manda) in Gumla District of Jharkhand/Niraj Kumar Mishra and Mohd. Azhar Sabir. Imagery and Symbolism. 9. Depiction of Mother Goddess in Harappan Art/Rishabh Dixit. 10. Mythical equines: early Indian winged horse imagery/Manjiri Bhalerao. 11. Spaces of silence: Upali Thein as a Window into the Monastic Traditions of Ancient Myanmar/Shreyashi Chaudhuri. 12. Indra Deva in Literature and Art/Sunanda Srivastava. 13. Wings of the Sun: the eagle in comparative cultures with special focus on ancient India/Sushil Chand. 14. The Tibetan Thangkas: an analysis of the timeless pieces in the State Museum Lucknow, and its contemporary echoes/Meenakshi Khemka and Ayushi Kumari. 15. Buddhism in the Prachi Valley/Sarita Dash. 16. An analytical study of erotic sculptures on the Odishan Temples/Benudhar Patra. Iconography. 17. Apasmarapurusha – an eternal demon in the visual arts of South India/M Krishna Kumari. 18. Iconographical aspects of Naga stone tradition in Karnataka/Priya Thakur. 19. Andhra and beyond – the dissemination of Buddha bronzes/D Nagamani. 20. An interesting Rishabhanatha image/P Srivastava. 21. Thorla and Dhakta Laxmi-Keshav Idols of Sheer, Guhagar, Dist. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra/P Vijay Samel and Aditi A Kulkarni. Art and Ideas. 22. The story of digitally stitched Mewar Ramayana in the CSMVS Collection/S Mukherjee. 23. Art from Geological times reflections on art, aesthetics and time/M Rammohan Rao and V Sodha. 24. The sacred and the secular in Bhartrhari’s Semantics/Radhika H. 25. Divine conflict representations: discourses on the ideas approach in Indian iconography/Jaya Jose. 26. The role of consciousness in the Jain Jiva and the Buddhist Vijnana: bridging idealistic and materialistic perspectives on the self/Manali Momaya. 27. Power with responsibility-gleanings from the Ayodhya Kanda of the Ramayana/Radha Kumar. 28. Kundakundacharya and his contribution to Jain philosophy/P. Chenna Reddy. 29. Jain Acharyas of Telangana/E V Sivanagi Reddy. Heritage. 30. Breathing life to the timeless lines of an artistic endeavor-the Hase Chittara folk art of Karnataka’s Deevaru community/Githa U Badikillaya. 31. Magic of the Masks: Fusion of art and ritual with special reference to Gambhira masks of West Bengal and traditional masks of Nigeria/Swati Bhattacharya. 32. Paithani- the Mahavastra of Maharashtra: tradition and continuity/A. K. Ranade. 33. An Odessey: Tanjore painting with special reference to Marathas in Tanjore/S H Samel. Personality. 34. Pabiben/Dendukuri Nagamani.
