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This is a detailed exposition of the visual retellings from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana on specific Indian Hoysala temples. The first part of the book deals with the Amrtesvara temple, particularly its narrative panels depicting the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana. The text is a resume of episodes paired with photographs which illustrate and review the visual retellings and explore Indian techniques of visual narrative. Corollary material from other Hoysala temples with narrative reliefs, including new sites, is presented in the second half of the volume.

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'.. .particularly valuable as constructive contribution to a specific aspect of medieval Indian temple art.'<br>Edgar C. Polomi, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1999.<br>

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Kirsti Evans, Ph.D. (1993), Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, is a Research Fellow in Indian Religions at Lancaster University. She has published: Patterns of Visual Story-telling: Episodes from the Story of Rama, (1995).

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