Elements of Hindu Iconography (2 vols. in 4 Pts.) Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House In the sixty years since

In the sixty years since this work was first published

concentrated and capable of sustained awareness of a single object

for it alone is the substratum of consciousness and lacks any externally perceivable features

the Cosmic Person 35   The Origin and Nature of Time 36   The Four Age 38   The Kali Age 41   The Dissolution of the World in Visnu 41   The Dissolution into Prakrti and Purusa 43   The Shape of Space 45   The Seven Heavens 46   The Seven Netherworlds 48   The Hells 49   The Regions of Earth 52   The Origin of the Seers and the Manus 55   The Manvantaras 57 2 Visnu Introduction 59   The Four Forms of Visnu 66   The Twelve Avatiiras of Visnu 67   The Twenty-Two Avatiiras of Visnu 68   The Avatiiras of Visnu and the Story of 69   Anasuya 69 Matsya

so the story could have been borrowed by Mahãnama from the Milinda Pañha

Elements of Hindu Iconography (2 vols. in 4 Pts.) Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House In the sixty years sinceVol 1,Part I This treatise is one of the early attempts by an archaeologist of our country for a diligent search into the origin, descriptions, symbols, mythological background, meaning, and moral aims of Hindu images. The book is in two volumes, each volume again in two parts. Vol. I, Part I contains a long Introduction discussing among other things the origin of Hindu image worship in India, an explanatory description of the terms employed in the