Yaksas was originally published by the Freer Gallery of Smithsonian Institution in two parts (1928 and 1931). THIS BOOK IS PART TWO - DATED MAY 19th 1931
Coomaraswamy dealt with the interpretative levels of the artistic motif in Part 2. He delved deeper to unfold the water cosmology underlying what may appear on surface as either a minor deity or tutelary god, or only an ornamental motif. Coomaraswamy did not restrict himself to the Indian literature on water cosmology but drew attention to many ancient cultures, e.g., those of Egypt and Iran.
ANANDA K.COOMARASWAMY, a reputed scholar on Indian Art and Culture was a man of prodigious learning, equally at home in vedic, classical, medieval, European and Islamic literature. With a D.Sc., degree from the University of London he came to the field of art by way of science. Conversant with about a dozen languages, he was an art critic, a historian, a philosopher and metaphysician whose mind encompassed the sum total of the eastern and western traditions of learning and thought. Keeper of Indian, Persian, and Muhammadan Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
CONDITION : Soft Cover, 84 pages, 1931, Original Smithsonian publication with 50 illustrative plates (photo and line drawing), light wear to cover edges, spine strong, pages clean. VG
