Books
Books
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TARJUMA-I-MANAKUTUHALA & RISALA-I-RAGADARPANA
ISBN : 81-208-1282-4Edited By :SHAHAB SARMADEE
(1996 lxviii+314pp)
Rs.500.00This is the first Persian text brought out in the Kalāmūlaśāstra Series. The volume presents a combined text on music in Persian that was compiled during the seventeenth century CE. The fact of its being a combined text has gone unnoticed till recently. Read More
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DATTILAM of DATTILA MUNI
ISBN : 81-208-0586-0Edited By :MUKUND LATH
(1988, xvii+236pp, textual notes., com., appen., bibl.)
Rs.300.00The Dattilam, ascribed to Dattila Muni, is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organized systematic writing on music in India. The work can be placed in the same period as that of the available recension of the Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata MuniRead More
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KRSNAGITI OF MANADEVA
ISBN : 81-208-1478-9Edited By :C. R. SWAMINATHAN and SUDHA GOPALAKRISHNAN
(1997, xv+349pp., col. ills.)
Rs.650.00The kṛṣṇagīti is a lyrical and devotional poem composed in Sanskrit by Mānaveda, Zamorin of Kozhikode during seventeenth century CE. The poem in its eight parts celebrates the life of Kṛśṇa from his incarnation (Avatāra) to his ascent to Heaven (svargārohaṇa)…Read More
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SELECTED ESSAYS OF G. SANKARA PILLAI
ISBN : 81-244-1081-2Edited By :N. RADHAKRISHNAN
(1997, xi+176pp., index)
Rs.250.00The collection of essays in this volume, grouped in three sections under the headings: General Perspectives, Traditions of Theatre, and Modern Idiom in Theatre, reveal the author’s complete mastery on the various aspects of Indian culture, particularly the theatre arts…Read More
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STYLISTICS OF BUDDHIST ART IN INDIA
ISBN : 81-7305-243-3Edited By :Mireele Benisti
(2003, xiv+346pp., 2 vols. (text & plates), 288 illus.)
Rs.4,000.00This book contains many landmarks in the history of Buddhist doctrine and art, presented on the basis of in-depth analysis of the styles and icons of stūpas…Read More
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANANDA KENTISH COOMARASWAMY
ISBN : 81-7304-428-7Edited By :James S. Crouch
(2002, 430pp.)
Rs.1,000.00The volume documents the remarkably productive career of one of the great minds of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accurate bibliography is the result of more than twenty years of devoted research and scholarship. Its publication is an event of the first importance for all scholars of Indian art and religion…Read More
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AESTHETICS AND MOTIVATIONS IN ARTS AND SCIENCE
ISBN : 81-224-0746-3Edited By :KIRAN C. GUPTA
(1996, xvi+183pp.)
Rs.350.00This volume is a collection of twelve papers invited for a National Seminar based on the seminal work, “Truth and Beauty; Aesthetics and Motivations in Science” by the Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar. The contributions are by experts in arts, fine arts and science,…Read More
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Baroque India : The Neo-Roman religious architecture of South Asia: A Global Stylistic Survey
ISBN : 81-7305-161-5Edited By :Stylistic Survey, Jose Pereira
(2000, xix+497pp, line-drawings, b&w plates, bibl., index)
Rs.2,500.00Baroque India is the fruit of over forty years of research and is the work of one professionally trained in the history of Indian art (Hindu, Buddhist and Jain). In addition, he is the author of a survey of Islamic architecture worldwide, which includes, of course, the Indo-Islamic traditions…Read More
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BRHADISVARA TEMPLE: FORM AND MEANING
ISBN : 978081-7305-388-7Edited By :R. Nagaswamy
(2010, xxvi+280pp.+xxvi, halftone illus. 284, bibl., figs. & maps 13, index)
Rs.3,000.00The great temple at Tañjāvur is a visual representation of cosmic power on earth that remains, according to the pious wish of the builder, so long as the sun and moon lasts. The God who inhabits this abode is said to be seated with his consort on the summit of the metaphysical…Read More
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DEER IN ROCK ART OF INDIA AND EUROPE
ISBN :Edited By :GIACAMO CAMURI, ANGELO FOSSATI AND YASHODHAR MATHPAL
(1993, xvi+150pp. tables, line - drawings., col. and b & w illus.)