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Book summary of the agama encyclopaedia vol xii source book the agama literature include the silpa sastra, which is basic to iconography worship dealt with in the agama necessarily involves image which are worship wrothy the rituals and sequences that are elaborated in the agama books find relevance only the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine and icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship agama texts are not easily accessible to the people a large number of them are still available only in manuscripts; some of them which ahve been printed are only in their sanskrit originals there is need, therefor,e to present relevant excerpts from them at least to make the volumes on iconography more meaningful about author: vidyalankara, sastra chudamini sangita kalaratna, professor saligrama krishna ramachandra rao, is a well known scholoar who combines traditional learning with modern research well versed in sanskrit, pali, ardhmagadhi and several modern indian languages and acquainted with tibetan and some european languages, he has written extensively on vedanta, buddhism, jainism, indian culture art and literature