History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c37.25

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¹⁷⁰¹ Besides the Annual Reports and Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, the following is a modest list of such works: Ars Asiatica (in French), some volumes of which such as vol. III (on Śaiva sculpture), vol. X (on Ajanta), vol. XV (about images at Mathurā) are specially useful; Ludwig Bachhofer's 'Early Indian Sculpture' in two volumes (1929, Paris) with 161 plates (from 300 B. C. to 200 A. D.); Brindaban Bhattacharya's 'Indian Images' vol. I (1921, a very useful work containing original Sanskrit texts from the Vedas to the latest works and several illustrations); N. K. Bhattasali's 'Iconography of Buddhist and Brahmanical Sculptures in the Dacca Museum'; Rai Bahadur Chanda's 'Medieval Indian Sculptures in the British Museum' (1936); 'Ancient India' (from the earliest times to the Guptas as to architecture and sculpture) by K. de B. Codrington 1926, with numerous plates; A. K. Coomarswamy's 'History of Indian and Indonesian Art'; A. Foucher's 'Beginnings of Buddhist Art' (1917 translated by L. A. Thomas and F. W. Thomas) and 'L' Arte Gréco-Bouddhique du Gandhāra' (in two vols. 1905 and 1918); O. C. Gangoly's 'South Indian Bronzes' (1915, with 95 full page illustrations and 45 smaller plates); T. A. Gopinath Rao's 'Elements of Hindu Iconography' (in 4 parts, containing quotations from purāṇas, śilpaśāstras and other works and numerous illustrations); Grünwedel's 'Buddhist Art in India' (English translation by Agnes C. Gibson revised by James Burgess, 1901); E. B. Havell's 'Indian Sculpture and Painting' (London, 1908), 'the Ideals of Indian Art' (London, 1911), 'Hand-book of Indian Art' (London, 1920); H. Krishna Sastry's 'South Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses'; Nihar Ranjan Ray's 'Brahmanical Gods of Burma' (1932); V. A. Smith's 'History of Fine Art in India' (1911, with hundreds of illustrations); 'Mūrtivijñāna' (in Marathi) by G. H. Khare (1939, Poona).