Main entry:

Kollar, L. Peter (Laszlo Peter), 1926-2000.

Title & Author:

Symbolism in Hindu architecture as revealed in the Shri Minakshi Sundareswar / L. Peter Kollar ; photographs by Alan Croker.

Publication:

New Delhi : Aryan Books International, 2001.

Description:

xiv, 97 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-93) and index.
The gate and its guardians: Ganesha, goad of beginning -- Gopurams: the gates -- The face of glory -- Between boundary and centre: circumambulation -- Patterns of the Vedic Altar -- Subtle forms of the interspace -- The primordial duad -- Symbols of universal possibility -- The divine measure of the core: Viamana of Lord Sundareswar -- The primordial sacrifice -- The Vastupurusha Mandala -- From unity to quadrature -- Pegging and inseminating the ground -- The symbols of transcendence: the womb of spiritual rebirth -- The axis of the universe -- The three-dimentional cross.

ISBN:

8173052042 (hardcover)
9788173052040 (hardcover)

Subject:

Maturai Aruḷmiku Mīn̲āṭci Cuntarēsvarar Ālayam.
Maturai Aruḷmiku mīn̲āṭci Cuntarēsvarar Ālayam.
Madurai Minakshitempel.
Hindu temples.
Symbolism in architecture India.
Hindu art India.
Hindu symbolism.
Temples hindous.
Symbolisme en architecture Inde.
Art hindou Inde.
Symbolisme hindou.
Hindu art
Symbolism in architecture
Architektur
Symbolik
India

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216051
Call No.: NA6008.M3 K6 2001
Status: Available