Author: Sharma, Brijendra Nath
Title: The Iconography of Vainayaki
Description: New Delhi, Abhinav Publications, 1979. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, 92,(32) pp.. 32pp photoplates. Minor wear. VG. ¶ The present book deals with the iconography of Vainayaki or Ganesani, the Sakti or the female-energy of Vinayaka-Ganapati. All the relevant materials given in the Puranas and other religious and secular literature, besides the Jaina and Buddhist works, have been considered in preparing this monograph: A number of sculptures, bronzes and paintings of Vainayaki,most of them unknown so far, have been briefly discussed for the first time, to show that the goddess occupied an important place both among the sixty-four Yoginis and also as an independent cult divinity...The book contains forty illustrations. Fifteen appendices given in the end provide inforamtion about Vainayaki and also other Yoginis..." from dustwrapper.

Keywords: Hinduism, Vainayaki, Ganesani, History of Religion, Hindu Deities, Indic Sculpture, India South Asia, Art History, Iconography, Vinayaka-Ganapati