New Book: Epic Narratives in the Hoysala Temples

[Geoffrey Samuel]

Readers of Indology may be interested in a book just published by a recent
Lancaster PhD:

Kirsti Evans, Epic Narratives in the Hoysala Temples. The Ramayana,
Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana in Halebid, Belur and Amrtapura. Leiden,
New pork, Koln: Brill, 1997. (Studies in the History of Religions, vol.74.)
ISBN 9004105751.

The book is a detailed exposition of the visual retellings from the
Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana on specific South Indian Hoysala
temples, with 150 photographs.

Geoffrey Samuel

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*  Geoffrey Samuel                                                      *
* (until 12/97) Department of Religious Studies                   OM    *
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