The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c2.8

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In preparing this edition I have received help from a number of persons. With their help I could complete the revision and place the book in the hands of scholars in its present form. First of all, it is my sacred duty to acknowledge the debt I owe to the late lamented Dr. N. P. Chakravarti, one-time Director-General of Archaeology in India, for graciously permitting me to reproduce all the photographs belonging to the Department as were included in the first edition. These photographs either purchased direct or reproduced from Departmental publications are shown in the list of Acknowledgements. It is hardly necessary for me to add that iconographic studies in India are not possible without the generous help of the Archaeological Department—help that is always given cheerfully as also gracefully.