JOURNAL OF BENGAL ART Volume 24, 2019 EDITOR: ENAMUL HAQUE ze Figen Dota USMS aR THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR STUDY OF BENGAL ART HOUSE 1054, ROAD 7 (NEW), MIRPUR DOHS, DHAKA, BANGLADESH E-mail: bengalart1995@gmail.com; www-bengalart.orgPUBLISHED BY Professor Dr. Enamul Haque Chairman THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR STUDY OF BENGAL ART ©ICSBA, 2019 PRICE Taka 1,500/- (Bangladesh) Rupees 1,500/- (India) US Dollar 45 (Other countries) ISSN: 1607-1344 PRINTED AT Bengal Com-Print 68/5, Green Road, Panthapath, Dhaka-1205 Phone: 8611142, 0171300936CONTENTS Contents Contributors Andrea Loseries ‘ Burman Palm Leaf Manuscript: Myanmar, 1885 (1297 M.E.) Baba Mishra . ‘A Study on Bhairava Iconography of the Tel Valley, Odisha Claudine Bautze-Picron a ‘A Short Note on a Recently Discovered Lintel in Lakhisarai ‘Noor Bano Sattar ‘An Image of the Sun god with Planetary Deities from Belkash, Purba Bardhaman District Durga Sankar Koley Varna Jatiand S the Brhaddharma Purana Janice Leoshko ‘Ananda Coomaraswamy and His Significant Buddhist Sculptures from Sri Lanka KumKum Bandyopadhyay & Priyanku Chakraborty ‘A Rare (Hitherto Unreported) Image of Bighteen- Armed Avalokitesvara from Gaya, South Bihar Ursula Bickelmann ‘Archaism Versus Modernism: The Small Sculptures of Meera Mukherjee Birendra Nath Prasad Dedicatory Inscriptions on the Sculptures of Bodh Gaya, c. 4-12" Century A.D.: Explorations in Socio-Religious History Shreela Basu ‘The Temples of Puthia Rituparna Basu Dolls, Display and Changing Discourse: A Micro Study of Fairs in Howrah Rob Linrothe Deeply Rooted Ritual: The Plurality of Sponsor Couples in Eastern Indian Sculpture, c. Eighth to Thirteenth Century, and an Explanatory Hypothesis, Md. Abdur Rob, Sohag Ali & Md. Masood Imran A (Hitherto Unpublished) Late Mughal Mosque Inscription of Bengal: An Analytical Look Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq ‘An Epigraphic Journey Through Medieval Bengal ‘Shyamalkanti Chakravarti ‘Wood Carvings of Bengal: A Decorative Stick From Calcutta 9-13 15-27 29-38 39-48 49-55 57-68 69-74 75-90 91-101 103-112 113-122 123-150 151-155 157-173 175-178