The Development of Hindu Iconography
Antiquity of image-worship; deities on coins and seals; iconometry; Vaiṣṇava, Śaiva, Śākta, Saura, syncretistic and minor icons, citing texts, coins, inscriptions and sculpture.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Jitendra Nath Banerjea
- Extent
- 2,078 passages, 240,096 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, Calcutta: University of Calcutta 1956; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1… · In copyright (Jitendra Nath Banerjea †1969); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 2 parts
- c2 The Development of Hindu Iconography — 9 parts
- c3 Preface to the Second Edition — 9 parts
- c4 Preface to the First Edition — 10 parts
- c5 List of Abbreviations — 39 parts
- c6 List of Illustrations — 10 parts
- c7 Contents — 112 parts
- c8 Chapter I: Study of Hindu Iconography — 59 parts
- c9 Chapter II: The Antiquity of Image-Worship in India — 49 parts
- c10 Chapter III: The Origin and Development of Image-Worship in India — 81 parts
- c11 Chapter IV: Brahmanical Divinities and their Emblems on Early Indian Coins — 66 parts
- c12 Chapter V: Deities and their Emblems on Early Indian Seals — 55 parts
- c13 Chapter VI: Icono-Plastic Art in India—Factors Contributing to its Development — 76 parts
- c14 Chapter VII: Iconographic Terminology — 94 parts
- c15 Chapter VIII: Canons of Iconometry — 60 parts
- c16 Chapter IX — 88 parts
- c17 Chapter X: Cult Icons—Viṣṇu and Sūrya — 3 parts
- c18 Chapter XI: Cult Icons—Śiva and Śakti — 3 parts
- c19 Chapter XII: Miscellaneous and Syncretistic Icons — 6 parts
- c20 Appendix A — 6 parts
- c21 Appendix C — 34 parts
- c22 Bibliography — 3 parts
- c23 Index — 79 parts
- c24 Errata — 263 parts