Author : Ellen M. Raven
Publisher : Gonda Indological Studies
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This study focuses on the gold coins featuring the Gupta king with a banner carrying the image of the mythic eagle Garuḍa, the supreme symbol of his power. They belong to five coin types that comprise about sixty percent of the dīnāras struck from the reign of Samudragupta up to and including Skandagupta.
Author : Ellen M. Raven
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Jason Neelis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9004181598
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks of religious mobility and trade.
Author : Sanjeev Kumar
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2016-11-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781366728210
This book covers the history and the entire Coinage of the Gupta Dynasty from the start in 319 AD to it's end in 543 AD. It also includes the Coinage of the Later Guptas and the related dynasties of Bengal. The author has illustrated every coin variety in Gold, Copper and Lead as well as a complete range of all known Silver coins with dates struck by the Gupta kings. The classification is comprehensive and intuitive.The book includes an excellent section on the iconography, metal analysis, history and the evolution of the designs seen on the Gupta gold coins. This book is an quintessential guide for Collectors and Dealers in coins to better understand the relative rarity and the different varieties with a full representation of the coins from Private Collections and most of the major Museums in India and across the world.
Author : Anant Sadashiv Altekar
Publisher :
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Coin hoards
ISBN :
Author : Susan Verma Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317193741
This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates individuals and communities into a cultural fabric. The work shows how these structures emphasise on communication with a host of audiences such as the lay worshipper, the ritual specialist, the royalty and the elite as well as the artisan and the sculptor. It also examines religious imagery, inscriptions, traditional lore and Sanskrit literature. The book will be of special interest to researchers and scholars of ancient Indian history, Hinduism, religious studies, architecture and South Asian studies.
Author : Catherine Ludvík
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004158146
Drawing on textual and art historical sources, this book traces the conceptual and iconographic development of the Indian riverine goddess of knowledge Sarasvati from sometime after 1750 B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.
Author : Karel R. Van Kooij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136176411
This volume is the first tangible result of an international project initiated by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) with the aim of compiling a bibliographic database documenting publications on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. The bibliographic information, over 1,300 records extracted from the database, forms the principal part of this publication. It is preceded by a list of periodicals consulted and followed by three types of indexes which help users to find their way in the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA Index). The detailed bibliographic descriptions, controlled keywords and many elucidating annotations make this reference work into an indispensable guide to recent scholarly work on the prehistory and arts of South/Southeast Asia.
Author : Śrīrāma Goyala
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture, Gupta
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004644806
In the course of millennia of dealing with problems of violence, South Asia has not only elaborated the ideal of total avoidance of violence in a unique manner, it also developed arguments justifying and rationalizing its employment under certain circumstances. Some of these arguments seemingly transform all sorts of ‘violence’ into ‘non-violence’. Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahiṃsā, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajñeya’s Hindi short stories.
