The Development of Hindu Iconography c23.8

c23.8

Badva Yūpas, 103 (n.), 110 Bairhatta Sūrya relief, 439-40 Balabandhu, 15 (n.) Baladeva, Balarāma (Rāma), 77, 93, 103, 133, 211, 289, 300, 302, 306, 320, 338, 347, 349, 390-2, 408, 412, 419-24, 502-3, 555 Balarāmabhāratam, a Sanskrit work on dramaturgy, 249 (n.) Balarāma Kulaśekhara, the author of Balarāmabhāratam, 249 (n.) Bali, the son of Virocana, 319, 324, 418-9 Bānaliṅgas, 82-3, 458 Bandhuvarman, 431 (n.) Barbaras, 492 Bardasanes, 89, 182 Basarh Seals, 177-80, 189, 193-5, 197-201, 226 Baṭuka Bhairava, 466, 482 Besnagar banyan capital, 104-5, 194 Besnagar Gaṅgā, 354 Besnagar Inscription of Heliodorus, 90, 92, 393-4 Bhada Pugarin, pupil of Gomitaka, 242 (n.) Bhadra, a man type, 311, 312 (n.) Bhadrā, 133 Bhadraghoṣa, a Pañcāla chief, 111, 133 Bhadrakālī, 491 Bhadrāryya, a name of the Devī, 363 Bhadreśvara, a name of Śiva, 182-4, 189 Bhaga, 428 Bhagavadgītā, 73, 191, 252, 253 (n.), 300, 362, 387 (n.), 389, 396, 426, 493, 541 Bhāgavatapurāṇa, 390, 408, 421, 426-7, 471, 513 (n.) Bhāgavatas, 80, 230-1, 243, 513, 567, 571 Bhagavatī, 577 Bhagīratha, 354 Bhairava, a terrific form of Śiva, 465, 481-3, 495, 513 (n.), 561, 573-4 Bhaja Indra relief, 238 Bhaja Sūrya relief, 238, 433 Bhakti, 72-5, 78, 80, 88, 228, 240 (n.), 335, 386, 393, 408 Bhānu, 365 (n.), 576-7 Bhānumitra, the Pañcāla chief, 139, 198, 432 Bharadvāja, the son of Bṛhaspati, 54 Bhāradvāja Saṃhitā Pariśiṣṭa, 394, 396 Bharata, the author of Nāṭyaśāstra, 278-80, 472 (n.), 474 Bhāratī, a name of Sarasvatī, 358, 496 Bhārgava Rāma (Paraśurāma), 320, 390-1, 419 Bharhut foreign figure, 293-4 Bhāsa, 37 Bhāskara, 138, 576-7 Bhava, a name of Śiva, 462 Bhava, one of the eight names of Rudra, 448, 449 (n.) Bhavabhūti, 452 (n.) Bhavanapati, a class of Jaina deities, 561 Bhavānī, 10, 491 Bhaveśa, 126, 136 Bhaviṣyapurāṇa, 107, 206-7, 209, 211, 217, 430, 568 Bhikṣāṭanamūrti (of Śiva), 483-4 Bhīma, the second Pāṇḍava, 37, 527 Bhīma, Bhīṣaṇa, appellations of Durgā, 83 (n.), 495 Bhīmādevī, 83, 135 Bhīmasena, seal found at Bhita, 197 Bhīmasthāna, 495 Bhīṣaṇa, a type of Bhairava, 466 Bhīṣma, 336 Bhītargaon brick temple, 275, 359, 406 Bhita sculpture, 455 (n.), 464 (n.) Bhita seals, 177-8, 182-5, 189, 193-4, 196-9, 201, 226, 265 Bhogāsanamūrti of Viṣṇu, 538 Bhogasthānakamūrti of Viṣṇu, 403 Bhojadeva, king of Dhara, 18-9, 209 Bhonuka, 101 Bhṛgu, a sage, 13, 15 (n.), 18, 324, 391 Bhṛṅgī, 553 Bhṛśa, 207 Bhūdevī (Bhū, Bhūmi), 30, 147, 324, 398, 406, 415, 560 Bhumara Śiva temple, 356, 359 Bhumara Sūrya relief, 435-6 Bhūmimitra, the Pañcāla chief, 147, 151 Bhūtanātha (Bhūtapati), names of Śiva, 446 Bhūtas, 325, 336 Bihar stone pillar inscription, 363 Bīja Gaṇapati and other iconographic varieties of Gaṇeśa, 358 Bilsad stone inscription, 363 Bilvedāsa, seals of, 201 Birbhum Manasā relief, 350 Bodh Gaya Sūrya relief, 238 Bodhisattvas, 242, 247, 259, 284, 288, 292, 400, 555 (n.), 557 Bodhi tree, 59, 84, 99, 108 (n.), 116, 152, 262, 348, 379, 531, 569 Brahma, 510-1, 577 Brahmā, 14, 77, 88, 101, 125, 230-2, 286, 302, 304-5, 324, 377, 386, 393, 395, 405, 407, 413-4, 419, 429, 445-6, 456 (n.), 462-3, 465, 475-6, 484-5, 493, 496-7, 500, 504, 510 ff., 521, 523, 545, 548-52, 558-9, 562, 567, 572, 576-7 Brahmā, his various names in the epics, 512 (n.) Brahmabhāga, 458 Brahmadatta, 250 Brahmadeva, 450 Brahmakāṇḍa, 458 (n.) Brahmamitra, 111 Brahman, 363 Brahmanaspati, a Vedic god addressed as Gaṇapati, 356, 510, 575 Brahmāṇī (Brāhmī), a Mātṛkā, 34, 490 (n.), 496, 504-5