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This two-volume set is a festschrift for the renowned scholar Dr. Umesh Chandra Dwivedi containing forty research papers by renowned senior and young scholars, besides reminiscences of his friends who cherish his academic contributions. The essays deal with a wide range of topics that cover prehistoric rock art, archaeology, patronage to art, accounts of architecture in travelogues, art historiography, museum objects, revisits to monuments, religious art, art motifs and gestures, narrative art, iconography of male and female divinities, tantrism, cultural heritage, temple complexes, Indian inspired art and architecture in other Asian countries, sacred textiles, ancient medicine, peeks into inscriptions, through to comparative religion. These volumes will be useful for Archaeologists, Indologists and Art Historians.