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Indian sculpture & iconography: forms & measurements

by  Ganapati Sthapati / Sashikala Ananth

Table Of Contents

  • Different types of divine forms & images
  • Appreciation and savouring of the arts
  • Relevance if the agama philosophy in sculpture
  • The form of the lingam
  • Spatial flexions of sculptural images
  • The various postures of sculptural images
  • The divine dance form
  • The language of gestures
  • Ayadi ganitam: Calculation of beneficial measures
  • Opening the eye of the image
  • Coiffures and head-dresses
  • Ornaments
  • Robes and raiments
  • Floral motifs
  • Symbols and weapons
  • Animals and birds
  • Bronze idols(cast images)
  • Katusakara images(Stucco images)
  • Systems of measurement in traditional architecture and sculpture
  • Determining the heights of divine images
  • Linear measurements of vaishnava images
  • Processional images
  • The six axes of measurement
  • Talamanamm-rhythmic measure
  • Different types of tala
  • Madhyama dasatala(Medium ten-part measure)
  • Adhama dasatala(Smaller ten-part measure)
  • Navardhatala(Nine and half-part measure)
  • Navatala(Nine-part measure)
  • Images of devotees
  • Ashtatala(Eight-part measure)
  • Saptatala(Seven-part measure)
  • Shattala(Six-part measure)
  • Panchatala(Five-part measure)
  • Images of yaksha and vidyadhara
  • The remaining tala

Subject

Sculpture, Indic / Idols and images / Hindu symbolism / Gods, Hindu, in art

Details

Published Pondicherry, India : Milton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire : Sri Aurobindo Society in association with Mapin Pub., Ahmedabad ; Distributed in the UK and Europe by Art Books International, Ltd., 2002
Language English
Material xix, 457 p.
ISBN 8170601797
Location
NB 1001 S853 2002 C.1
TCDC Bangkok - Reference Collection
NB 1001 S853 2002 C.2
TCDC Bangkok – Closed Stack (Reference Collection)

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