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Frog hymns and rain babies : monsoon culture and the art of ancient South Asia

Title
Frog hymns and rain babies : monsoon culture and the art of ancient South Asia / Gautama V. Vajracharya ; general editor, Vidya Dehejia.
Author
Vajrācārya, Gautamavajra
Publication
Mumbai : Marg Foundation, 2013.

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Additional Authors
Dehejia, Vidya
Description
212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
Summary
Examines the influence of monsoons on the art, literature, and culture of India and the South Asian region.
Subject
  • Art, South Asian > History
  • Art, Indic > History
  • Hindu art
  • Buddhist art
  • Winds in art
  • Winds in literature
  • 20.44 art of South-Asia, South-east Asia and Further India
  • 20.21 iconographic themes
  • 15.75 history of Asia
  • Art, Indic
  • Art, South Asian
  • Monsun
  • Kultur
  • Kunst
  • Plastik
  • Südasien
  • Südasien
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. I : New methodology. The Rigvedic frog hymn, shaving of hair, and monsoon culture -- Monsoon culture and the concept of prana in visual art -- pt. II : Artistic expressions of monsoon culture. Pipal tree, tonsured monks, and Ushnisha -- Chakravartin, the rainmaker -- The symbolism of Ashokan pillars -- Atmospheric gestation : deciphering Ajanta ceiling paintings and related works -- pt. III : The continuity of monsoon culture in Nepal. Creatures of the rain-river and cloud-lakes -- Dance of conception and rain babies : mother goddesses and the cult of kumara -- Shri and Lakshmi : rain-river and agrarian prosperity.
ISBN
  • 9788192110646
  • 8192110648
LCCN
2013315344
OCLC
  • ocn792879905
  • 792879905
  • SCSB-1766304
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library