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Synopsis The Khajuraho temples, combining architectural grandeur with sculptural exuberance, are among the most picturesque and best preserved monuments of India and represent the zenith of her architectural genius. Marking one of the perfect moments of India’s aesthetic sensibility, these temples provide a visual record of the medieval Indian world-view which reveled as much in religious symbolism as in the courtly preoccupations with embellishment of temples, war and hunting and festivities and pageantry…. The present monograph is a more comprehensive scientific treatise critically examining and evaluating all aspects of the art and architecture of Khajuraho. Thus it deals with each moulding and feature of all the standing temples and describes each of the thousands of images and sculptures with which these monuments are adorned. The attributes of the multi-armed images have been described clockwise beginning from the lower right had and ending with the lower left hand. Right and left directions are the proper right and left of the figure itself and not of the viewer. The mutilated or broken hand-attributes are briefly indicated as “holding mutilated or broken” and the hand stretched in alingana is described “holding or carrying alingana (embrace)”.