Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Morphological types of Rocana/Locana
This chapter describes Morphological types of Rocana/Locana located on page 76 of volume Volume 2 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 2 comprises the studies of Prof. Lokesh Chandra on the iconography, syllabary, tantras, cultural heritage in general, defence, Canon and mandalas of Japan, Korea and China.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Morphological types of Rocana/Locana. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Triveni Journal
Though we should not say that the general idea is not the conception of the arche-types, yet it is identical with the arche-type, since arche-types are evolving entities in the world, and though by themselves perfect, their exemplification or mirroring being timed, the general idea of such series of representations is vitiated rightly by the character of evolving of the former....
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Pallava period (Social and Cultural History) [by S. Krishnamurthy]
Head-dress of women in this period can be grouped under four types as following: Karanda-makuta Cylindrica cap like makuta Tiara Kirita-makuta The most commonly seen head-dress adorning the female sculptures is the karanda-makuta worn in majority by the goddesses, dvarapalikas and celestials, followed by the conical cap type worn especially by Gajalakshmi and a type of crown resembling kirita-makuta worn by the queens depicted in the historical panels of Vaikunthaperumal temple at Kanchipuram....
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A Historical Study of Kaushambi [by Nirja Sharma]
The second type datable to the 1st century B. C. is seen in the moulded plaques. The third type is seen through moulded specimens falling under certain types of Ahichchhatra and datable to a period between A. D. 550 and 650. Winged male figurines datable to about 1st century B. C, have also been founded at Kaushambi. The Kaushambi ruins have yielded fragmentary plaques depicting winged male figurines....
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