Art Of Ancient India : Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

Contents
Preface
[p. i -vi  (not  incl.)
 Acknowledgments and Credits
 p. xi. -ixx  (not incl.)]
A Note on Pronunciation and Transliteration of Sanskrit
Introduction
     Geographical Considerations
     The Problem of Dating
     Art and Culture
Part One: Foundations of Indian Civilization: The Prehistoric and Protohistoric Periods
     1   Antecedents of Indian  Civilization
          Stone Age Painting and Sculpture
          Early Neolithic Art
          Conclusion
     2   The Indus (or Harappa) Civilization (ca. 2300 to 1750 B.C)
          The Cities and owns
          Sculpture
          Seals
          Pottery
          The Eclipse of the Indus Civilization
     3   The Vedic and Upanisadic Periods (ca.1500 to 450 B.C)
          The  Indo-Aryans
          Literary  Evidence: The Vedas (ca. 1500 to 800 B.C)
          Literary Evidence: The Upanisads (ca. 800 to 450 B.C.)
          Other Literary Evidence: The Puranas and Epics
          Mahavira
          Archaeological Evidence
          Other  Indigenous Trends: Megalithic Remains of Southern India
          Conclusion
Part Two: Period of the Early Dynasties
     4  The Maurya Period (ca. 323 to 185 B.C.)
          Edicts and Pillars
          Rock-cut Architecture
          Other Asokan  Monuments
          Maury a-period Sculpture  from  Pataliputra
          Maurya-period Terra-cotta Sculpture
          Conclusion
     5  The Sunga Period and Related Developments (ca. Second Century to First Century B.C.)
          Vidisa in the Sunga Period
          The Mathura Region During the Sunga Period
          Buddhist Art of the Sunga Period: Free-standing Architectural Monuments
          Rock- cut Architecture of the Sunga Period: The Western Deccan
          The Eastern Deccan: The Andhra Pradesh Region
          Sunga-period Terra Cottas
          Conclusion
     6  Regional Developments (ca. Late First Century B.C. Through First Century A.D.)
          The Vidisa Region: Sand
          Buddhist Rock-cut Architecture of the Western Deccan: Bedsa
          Eastern India: Khandagiri/Udayagiri
          Conclusion
     7  The Saka and Parthian Kingdoms in the Indian Sphere (ca.First Century B.C. to Mid-First Century A.D.)
          Introduction to the Bactro-Gandhara Region
          The Kapisa Region
          The Gandhara Region
          The Swat Valley (Ancient  Uddiyana)
          Northern India (The Mathura Region)
          Conclusion
     8   The Northwest and Northern Regions Under the Kusanas (ca. Late First Century to Third Century A.D.)
          Royal Shrines
          The Bactro-Gandhara Region: Architecture
          The Bactro-Gandhara Region: Sculpture
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          Northern India: Mathura and Related Sites
          Non-Buddhist Sculpture at Mathura   (not incl.
          Conclusion
     9   Regional Developments in the Deccan (ca.Second and Third Centuries)  not incl.
          The Western Deccan Caves
          The Eastern Deccan: The Andhra Pradesh Region Under the Later Satavahanas and Iksvakus
          Conclusion
Part Three: Dynasties of the Middle Periode
     10  The Gupta Period (Fourth to Sixth Centuries)
          Hindu Art of the Early Gupta Period
          Buddhist Art of the Fifth Century: North-Central India (Sand)
          Buddhist Art of the Fifth Century: North India (Mathura and Sarnath)
          Buddhist Art in the Northwest
          Hindu Temple Architecture
          Brick Temples and Terra-cotta Art
          Metal Images
          Conclusion
     11  The Gupta Aftermath
          The Disintegration of the Empire
          Outgrowths of the Gupta Idioms (ca. 550 to 700)
          Eastern India
          Buddhist Art in the East
          Hindu Art in the East
          Western Indian Developments
          Conclusion
     12  Buddhist Cave Architecture (Fifth Through Seventh Centuries)
          Ajanja
          Bagh
          Kanheri
          Aurangabad
          Ellora
          Conclusion
     13  Hindu Rock-cut Architecture of the Deccan (Kalacuri and Early Western Calukya Phases)
          The Early Kalacuri Period
          Caves of the Early Western  Calukyas
          Conclusion
     14  Southern Developments Under the Pallavas and the Pandyas
          The Pallavas
          The Early Pandyas
          Conclusion
     15  The Early Western Calukya and Related Schools of the Deccan
          Structural Temples of the Early Western Calukyas
          The Eastern Calukyas
          The Nolambas
          Conclusion
     16  Hindu Rock-cut Architecture of the Western Deccan
          Ellora (Rastrakuta Phase)
          Conclusion
Part Four: Later Northern Schools
     17  Kasmir and Related Schools
          Pre-Karkota Remains
          The Karkota  Period (ca. 625 to 855)
          The Utpala Dynasty (ca. 855 to 339)
          The Two Lohara Dynasties and the Last Hindu Kings (Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries)
          Kasmiri Ivories and Metal Images
          The Art of Adjacent Regions: Western Himalayan Foothills and Western Tibetan Cultural Region
          Conclusion
     18  Bihar and Bengal Under the Pala and Sena Kings
          Buddhist Art
          Hindu Art
          Conclusion
     19  Orissa and Related Regions
          Sripura (Sirpur) and Rajim: Madhya Pradesh
          Hindu Art and Architecture of Orissa
          Buddhist Art of Orissa
          Conclusion
     20  North-Central and Northwestern India: The Art of the Rajput Clans
          The Gurjara-Pratiharas of Kanauj (ca. 710-1027)
          The Haihayas (or Kalacuris) of Tripuri
          The Candellas of Bundelkhand
          The Paramaras of Malwa
          The Solankis of Gujarat (ca. 950 to 1304 [961-1244?])
          The Gahadvalas of Varanasi (ca.  1075  to 1200)
          Manuscript Painting
          Conclusion
Part Five: Later Schools of the Deccan and the South
     21  The Cola and Related Schools of the Tamil South (Mid-Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries)
          Conclusion
     22  Later Deccan Schools
          The Western Gangas of Talakad (Tenth Century)
          The Later Calukyas of Kalyani (973  toca.  1189)
          The Yadavas of Devagiri (1191  to  1311)
          The Kakatiyas of Hanamkonda and Warangal (ca. Mid-Eleventh Century to ca. 1325)
          The Hoysalas of Southern Karnataka (ca. 1006 to 1346)
          Conclusion
     23  The Vijayanagar Period (ca. 1336 to 1565)
          Conclusion
     24  The Nayak Period
          Conclusion
     25  The Kerala Region
          Conclusion
[Afterword  (not incl.)
 Notes  (not incl.)
 Select Bibliography  (not incl.)]
Glossary
 [List of Maps (not incl.)
 Illustration Index  (not incl.)
 Index  (not incl.)]