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One of the first things that strike the Western viewer of Indian art is the multiplicity of heads, arms and eyes. This convention gows out of imagery conceived by Vedic sages to explain creation. This volume investigates the meaning of this convention. The author concentrates on its origins in Hindu art and on preceeding textual references to the phenomenon of multiplicity. The first part of the book establishes a general definition for the convention, while the second part applies this literary information mainly to icons of Yaksa, Siva, Vasudeva-Krsna and the goddess, and indicates how Brahmanical cultural norms can transmit textual symbols. Both part one and two provide an iconic modules and a methodology to generate interpretations for icons through to the Gupta age.

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' This major scholarly work, the product of a career-long investigation, bridges the field of Hindu art history and Sanskrit literature and to a lesser degree the history of religion.'<br>Carol Radcliffe Bolon, The Journal of Asian Studies.<br>' The book must be read by everyone who works on the art and religion of early India. Coomaraswamy and Kramrisch (who was one of the Srinivasan's teachers) would be proud of her work.'<br>Robert L. Brown, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001.<br>

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Doris Meth Srinivasan, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, is Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. She has published extensively on the art of Mathura; Hindu iconography; Vedic studies, including Vedic and ancient Hindu rituals.

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