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The Development of Hindu Iconography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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page 520 note 1 Indian Antiquary, 1915, pp. 41–52.Google Scholar
page 521 note 1 Probably the same as is described in the Catalogue of the Sārnāth Museum, p. 318Google Scholar (No. G24(c)). For Indra's thunderbolt in Buddhist art see Grünwedel, & Burgess, , Buddhist Art in India, pp. 38, 87.Google Scholar
page 521 note 2 Bṁhatsaṃhitā, ch. ii, vv. 47–8.Google Scholar
page 521 note 3 Dānakhaṇḍa, ch. ii, pp. 757 f.Google Scholar The ratha is mentioned, but not the horses.
page 522 note 1 Sastri, H. Krishna, South Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses, fig. 147.Google Scholar
page 522 note 2 Smith, V. A., History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, p. 162 and fig. xxxv.Google Scholar
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page 523 note 1 Smith, V. A., History of Fine Art, figs. 191, 192.Google Scholar
page 523 note 2 As always on Gupta coins. See also Cunningham's Bhārhut, plates xxi–iii (Śiri holding lotus in hand).
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page 524 note 1 The reference is to Mēghadūta (gōpavēṣasya Viṣṇōḥ).
page 524 note 2 Pāṇḍuraṅgaṣṭakam of Śaṅkarācārya.
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page 525 note 1 The number of hands in a Sātvik image should never be more than four, and in a Tāmasik image never less than eight. Rājasik images have sir or eight arms (Śilpa-saṅgraha). The distinction is illustrated by the images of Naṭarāja in Sastri, H. K.'s book (op. cit.), pp. 77–88.Google Scholar
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