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Sri Shankara Bhagavatpadacharya's Soundarya Lahari, Visual Narratives by Artist H. Jayadeva.The monograph introduces Mysore based Artist Sri. H Jayadeva and his immaculate art works on Soundarya Lahari. Sri Jayadeva belonged to old Mysore Tradition with very much contemporary thinking. He studies in Chamarajendra technical Institute Mysore under legendary art teachers like Sri S.N. Swamy and Y Subrahmanyaraju. He served in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Bangalore. Since his young days have been interested in spiritualism and Vedic scriptures, He has been transforming them in beautiful
impressive visual narratives on canvases and papers as meaningful art works.

Present monograph introduces 67 paintings created based Soundarya Lahari Verses. Sri Shankaracaharya
composed this as part of Ananda Lahari in eulogy of Mother Bhavani- Uma-Girija. He has explained
the beauty and her various deeds and her almighty powers in his lucid verses. Artist has delineated each verse as one
painting. Book consists of 67 plates of paintings done by Artist H. Jayadeva. Besides a lengthy
Description about each verse and note in English. There is also a chapter on artist’s biographical notes – Artist H.
Jayadeva an artist of Adhyatma Kala. The monograph records the importance of an ancient text and visual narrative which
is the result of artist ' sunder standing and imagination of each visual sequence.