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The present treatise generally incorporates the matter about Indian Gods and Goddesses of Indian Art and Literature. The Iconographical representation of the Indian Gods & Goddesses, as glimpsed from the Archaeological findings and temple architecture is one aspect and the literary evidences found in our vast Indian literature of Vedic, Epic and Puranic period is the other aspect of the book. [Indian Books] Both these aspects delineated in this book give us perfect picture and historical development of Indian Mythology of Gods and Goddesses.

ISBN 9788188934959, DK-227591, The book offers an in-depth, exclusive study of Devi Bagalamukhi and her Sakti pithas, with emphasis on socio-cultural aspects of the goddess' cult. Beginning with a comprehensive backdrop about the genesis of Bagalamukhi's cult, her iconographic attributes, and rituals, among other aspects, the book highlights the goddess' descriptions in literature

In the image of Mother Goddess from the Upper Palaeolithic Age may be seen the embryonic beginnings of South Asian art. The discovery of terracotta seated-male figurines, in Yogic postures, at Harappa and Mohenjodaro are again among the other instances of the earliest art in the South Asian region. ISBN 9789350500262