Contents Editorial Note v Nalini Kanta Bhattasali-A Centenary Estimate-Ranjana Mukherjee jx 1. An Early Indian Manuscript of the Karandavyuhasutra - Jeremiah P. Losty \ 2. Stone Engravings at Bodhgaya-Frederick M. Asher 23 3. A Rare Jataka Relief from the Pala Period-Janice Leoshko 29 4. Just the One Finger Yet : A Rare Representation of Angulimala in Pala Art -Debjani & Prangopal Paid 35 5. The Stone Images of the Buddha at Kurkihar-Analysis of a Style-Claud ine Bautze-Picron 41 6. Taming of the Elephant and Other Pala Sculpture in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco-Terese Tse Bartholomew gj 7. From Anomaly to Homogeneity : The Mosque in Hth-through 16th-century Bihar- Catherine B. Asher 57 8. Sculptured Stupas in Medieval Eastern India-T.K. Biswas 85 9. Notes on Two Problematic Images from Bengal- Prithvi K. Agarwal 91 10. Indra's Heaven in Buddhist art-Karel R. Van Kooij 97 11. A New Find of Harikela Coins-Swapna Bikash Bhattacharjee 119 12. Two Terracotta Toy Carts from Chandraketugarh-Joachim Bautze 123 13. Aniconic and Iconic Tendencies in Jainism, Judaism and Christianity-Gustav Roth 129 14. A Unique Danapati-relief-Gouriswar Bhattacharya 163 15. A New Form of Buddhakapaia- Dipak Chandra Bhattacharyya 173 16. Some Images of Heruka-Hevajra-Debala Mitra 179 17. The Last Buddhist Pundit of Bengal- Pratapaditya Pal 189 18. An Inscribed lintel from Bodh-Gaya in the Asutosh Museum- Mallar Mitra 199 19. Socio-Economic Factors in Early Medieval Art of Bengal : A Survey-Mihir Mohan Mukhopadhyay 203 20. On the legends of Coins Written in Bengali Chracters-Amarendra Nath Lahiri 213 21. New Evidence on Early Bengal Sculpture - Gautam Sengupta 233 xii 22. A Pala-Period Image of Agastya-Susan L. Huntington 239 23. Apropos a small Stupa with naga-Mireille Benisti 243 24. Wood Carvings of Bihar--Kalyan Kwnar Dasgupta 249 25. Problems in the Coinage of Manipur in Precious Metals-Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya 255 26. The Art of War during the Pala and Sena Rule- Samir K. Mukhopadhyay 261 27. Khila-Ksetras in Early Bengal Inscriptions-Chitrarekha Gupta 271 28. Mangalkot : An Ancient Township-Its History Archaeology--Amita Ray 285 29. Vairocana in Uttarabodhimudra : A Rare Example-Ashok K. Bhattacharya 293 30. Epigraphic and Literary Data Regarding the Early Use of the Vikrama and Saka Eras in Eastern India-B.N. Mukherjee 297 31. Kattara, an Upper Palaeolithic site in the Mid-Kasai valley, District Midnapur, West Bengal-Asok Datta and Dilip Ray 309 32. Eastern Indian Origin of the Agni-Purana-Juthika Maitra 321