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"Sculptural study provides a c1ear window to the socio-economie and religious study of the past. North India is full of numerous temples or early medieval period (9th to 13th centuries AD). Contemporary temples in the south have already been covered by several authors but no such .eXhaustive· study of the North Indian temples has been done. An attempt has been made in the present work, to study the sculptural wealth of the North Indian temples and to glean from it such light as they throw on the iconographic and cultural life of the people.
The ingenuity of the sculptors in carving icons of rare beauty and arrangement of āyudhas of geometrical designs and human figures in the small friezes complete to the minutest details is commendable and to be wondered at. More so when we think of the ancient instrument sand simple methods of working at their disposal.[...]"
