Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D.
Indus, Vedic, Maurya, Śuṅga, Sātavāhana, Kuṣāṇa, Mathurā and Gandhāra art, with terms and motifs explained from Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit literature.
- Language
- English
- Author
- V. S. Agrawala
- Extent
- 2,569 passages, 166,598 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Varanasi: Prithivi Prakashan 1965; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (Vasudeva S. Agrawala †1966); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 12 parts
- c2 Contents — 37 parts
- c3 Chapter X: — 16 parts
- c4 Preface — 30 parts
- c5 Chapter I: 1. Introductory — 28 parts
- c6 Chapter II: 2. Pre-Historic Period — 45 parts
- c7 Chapter III: 3. Indus Valley Art — 19 parts
- c8 Chapter IV: 4 (a). Vedic Arts and Crafts — 20 parts
- c9 Chapter V: 5 (a). Art in the Mahā-Janapada Period [Circa 1500 B. C. to 500 B. C.] — 55 parts
- c10 Chapter VI: 6. Śaiśunāga-Nanda Period — 65 parts
- c11 Chapter VII: 7. Mauryan Art (325-184 B. C.) — 172 parts
- c12 Chapter VIII: 8. Śuṅga-Kāṇva Art (C. 184 B. C.-27 B. C.) — 5 parts
- c13 Chapter IX: 9 (b). Buddhist Rock-Cut Architecture — 26 parts
- c14 Chapter XI: 11. Gandhāra Art — 59 parts
- c15 Chapter XII: Stūpas in the Āndhra-Sātavāhana Period — 30 parts
- c16 Chapter XIII: Indian Terracottas — 106 parts
- c17 Appendix I: Symbols and Icons in Classical Art & Religion — 210 parts
- c18 Appendix II: Description of the Line-Drawing Plates — 246 parts
- c19 List of the Half-Tone Plates — 97 parts
- c20 General Index to Important Words and Subjects — 34 parts
- c21 Corrigenda — 2 parts