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Synopsis The volume of thirty-one essays by the author, coming close on heels of the earlier volume, under the same main title and covering therin topics on History and Archaeology, is a round-up of some of the significant contributions on the entire gamut of architecture, art and allied religion. The first five essays deal with the formative stages of temples plan, its articulations and interactions under Buddhism and Brahmanism, covering the regions extending from Rajasthan through Gujarat and Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to Karnataka and Andhra. The next six papers allow us to feel and imbibe the specific regional trends in architecture, variously under the Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, early Pallavas and Hoysalas, along with a dissertation on Jainism in Tamil Nadu. The subsequent twelve essays delve deep into the kaleidoscopic cult-play on Brahmanical Hinduism, expounding some cardinal concepts such as linga placement in Vishnum Siva-Nataraja iconic tradition, literature as a mirror of art, the Devi cult and the Krishna manifestation. The book's further six essays discerningly analyse variously the Manipravala tradition in the southern religious literature, the South Asian echo of the epic and Puranic lore and art, and three major Bhakti offerings from southern Vaishnavism and, the comprehensive and basic character of the Sapta-dvipa tradition and its cult derivations.