Visual Culture: Hindu Art in the Age of Empires and Encounter
(2024)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2024). Visual Culture: Hindu Art in the Age of Empires and Encounter. In V. L. Stoker (Ed.), Volume 4: A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Empires (127-152). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350024342.0012
All Outputs (2)
Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art (2024)
Thesis
Sattler, S. Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art. (Thesis). SOAS University of LondonMedieval temples across South Asia, particularly in North India, prominently feature a skeletal goddess in the cardinal niches. With hollow eyes, sagging breasts, and fierce attributes, she fearlessly dances upon a corpse and haunts the cremation gro... Read More about Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art.