Extremely useful guide ... Particularly helpful and enlightening are the numerous plans, sections and elevations which accompany the description of each temple. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Elegantly produced ... Oxford University Press is to be congratulated for launching this project which will solve one of the problems for tourists in India: the chronic lack of small, well informed guidebooks ... of invaluable help to those who are not familiar with the site(s). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book provides an introduction to the temples at Pattadakal in central Karnataka, which represent the high point of eighth-century Hindu art and architecture. The only English-language guide to these extraordinary temples, this book will be invaluable for specialists as well as general readers.
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