Architecture and Sculpture of the Pushpagiri Temples

(Size-25x19 Cm )(crown quarto, abbreviations, glossary, bibliography, 127 B&W and col. plates, 3 illus., index). The book is devoted to a study of the architectural,s culptural and iconographical wealth of the temples at Pushpagiri in the Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh. Dr. V V S Kumar has given exhaustive descriptions of the temples of Pushpagiri (ranging from 11th to 16th centuries Ad) like Indranadhesvara, Rudrapada, bhimesvara, Sakshimallesvara, Umamahesvara, Santa-namallesvara and Chennakesava temples. The temples of Pushpagiri around in narrative sculpture of the Vijayanagar period dealing with episode from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata, besides some interesting episodes relating to saivite mythology. This book makes a highly informative and useful contribution to our knowledge of the architectural, sculptural and iconographical achievements of the Vijayanagara artists. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty seven photographs and three ground plans, this is a very useful book to museums, archaeologists, historians, research students and others interested in the subject. ISBN:8174790500 xv+158 Yr. of Pub.2003 Hard Bound