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Book summary of the agama encyclopaedia vol x nityarcana the agama literture includes the silpa sastra, which is basic to iconography worship dealt with in the agama necessarily involves images which are worship worthy the rituals and sequences that are elaborted in the agama books find relevance only in the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine and icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship about author : vidyalankara, sastra chudamini sangita kalaratna, professor saligrama krishna ramachandra rao, is a well known scholoar who combines traditional learning with modern research well versed in sanskrit, pali, ardhmagadhi and several modern indian languages and acquainted with tibetan and some european languages, he has written extensively on vedanta, buddhism, jainism, indian culture art and literature contents : introduction nityarcana in siva temples nityarcana-vidhi (according to tantra-sara) nityarcana in a visnu temple (pancaratra mode of worship) nityarcana of devi
