The Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of ancient Kashmir and its influences /

The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is primarily based on the study of the largely unpublished corpus of sculpture, mostly of stone, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and of other examples in situ elsewhere in the valley. The disparate nature and fragmentary...

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Main Author: Siudmak, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Brill, 2013.
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. 28. Bd.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical and Cultural Background of Kashmir Up to 1003 AD
  • 2. Early Sculptures
  • 3. The Formative Period: Sculptures from Bijbihara of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
  • 4. The Formative Period: Sculptures from Baramula of the Fifth to the Sixth Century
  • 5. Post-Gupta Influence: The Art of Pandrethan and Related Sculptures of the First Half of the Seventh Century
  • 6. The Emergence of the Classical Style: Buddhist Sculpture of the Seventh Century
  • 7. Buddhist Sculpture of the Eighth Century Up Till the End of the Kārkoṭa Period
  • 8. The Classical Style: Brahmanical Sculpture of the Kārkoṭa Period
  • 9. The Sculpture of Avantipura and the Art of the Utpalas up to the Beginning of the Lohara Dynasty (CA. 850-1003 AD)
  • Appendix: Kashmirian Literary Evidence for Multi-Headed Śiva Images
  • Bibliography
  • Index.