Volume 2

Elements of Hindu iconography / [T.A. Gopinatha Rao].

  • Rao, T. A. Gopinatha.
Date:
1914-1916
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Elements of Hindu iconography / [T.A. Gopinatha Rao]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFACE. In bringing out the Second Volume of the Elements of Hindu Iconography, the author earnestly trusts that it will meet with the same favourable reception that was uniformly accorded to the first volume both by savaiits and the Press, for which he begs to take this opportunity of ten- dering his heart-felt thanks. No pains have of course been spared to make the present publication as informing and interesting as is possible in the case of the abstruse subject of Iconography. Though the illustrations appearing in the present volume are by no means inadequate for the main purpose of the work, yet they are not so full and exhaustive as in the first, and a word of explana- tion in that connection may not be out of place. To the great regret of the author, the liberal pecuniary help offered for the preparation and publication of the first volume has been, owing to the somewhat straitened finances of the Travancore State at present, withheld from him on the present
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