CONTENTS:-
Vol.1: The Early Deities from Chalcolithic to Beginning of Historical Period: I. Introduction. II. Female deities: 1. The Mother Goddess. 2. Sakti worship. 3. The Earth Mother or Earth Goddess. 4. Sakambhari. 5. Tree Goddess. 6. Lajja Gauri or Aditi. 7. Eye Goddess. 8. Nursing mother. III. Male deities: 1. Siva or Pasupati. 2. Two headed deity. 3. Linga worship. 4. Yama. IV. The composite forms: 1. Human and animal forms: i. Half human and half serpent. ii. Half human and Half bull. iii. Half woman and half tiger (or Durga). 2. Animals with human heads: i. Human faced elephant. ii. Human faced goat or ram. 3. Multi-headed animals. 4. Other composite animals. 5. Human with horns. 6. Tiger-leopard and rhinoceros. V. Sacred animals, birds and reptiles: 1. Animals:- (i) Buffalo, (ii) Monkeys, (iii) Bull, (iv) Goat. 2. Acquatic animals:- Tortoise, Crocodile. 3. Birds:- Peacock, Dove. 4. Reptiles:- Snakes. VI. Tree worship and forest deities. VII. The mythology. VIII. Forces of nature and their adoration: 1. The fire (Agni). 2. The sun. 3. The water. IX. Svastika. X. Epilogue.
Vol.2: The Vedic Deities: 1. Introduction. 2. The Sky Gods. 3. Gods of the space. 4. The Gods of water. 5. Minor Gods. 6. Female deities. 7. The composite or the dual Gods. 8. Asta-Dikpalas and Ksetrapati. 9. The sacred trees. 10. The birds. 11. Epilogue.
Vol.3: Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Goddesses: 1. Introduction. 2. Deities of the Chalcolithic age. 3. The Vedic deities. 4. The Hindu Goddesses. 5. The Jaina Goddesses. 6. The Buddhist female deities.
Vol.4: Yogini Shrines and Saktipithas (in 2 parts): 1. Introduction; Section-1 Yogi,s Yoginis and their temples; 2. The Yogis, Yoginis and Bhairavas; 3. Yoginis temples in India; Section- 2 Historical aspects, Tantras, Cakras and Yantras; 4. Historical Overtones; 5. The tantras; 6. Cakras and Yantras; Section-3 Saktipithas; 7. Saktipithas; Section-4 Bhavanisahasranama; 8. Bhavanisahasranama; 9. Epilogue.
Vol.5: Deities in Terracotta Art: Earliest Times to Late Medieval Period.
