Discourses on ŚivaDiscourses on iva is a collection of essays on the nature of religious imagery in Indian art. Focusing on aivite monuments, aivite iconography, iconology, literary sources, and forms of iva, they fulfill several intentions: to clarify the historical processes of and rationales for image formation in India; to give an overview of current methodologies for approaching art in its Indian context, particularly of the ways in which scholars have established