The Development of Hindu Iconography c4.5

c4.5

A few words about the system of transliteration adopted in the following pages are necessary. I have followed the system recommended in the *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, with slight modification; for example, I have invariably used *ṃ* in place of *ṁ* to denote an anusvāra. In writing modern place names as well as ancient ones still current, I have usually desisted from the use of diacritical marks. But sometimes, due to oversight, the same name (*e.g.*, Gandhāra) has been spelt with or without these marks; but such lapses, I hope, are comparatively few.