CONTENTS: Editorial Board, Preface: Prof Dr Sharada Srinivasan, Editorial-Sri K K Mumammed-A Profile, Reminiscences: A Visionary and Inspiring Archaeologist-Kishor K Basa, Musings of a Classmate and Colleague-Ashok Kumar Pandey, The Gritty Par Excellent Archaeologist: Observations of a Journalist-Kumar Shakti Shekhar, An Archaeologist in the land of the Buddha and Asoka-Ravindra Panth, K K Muhammed-A Pioneer of Integral Humanism-Atul Tripathi, An Archaeologist like no other-Christel Pilz, 1. The Matrix of Ancient Nalanda Mahavihara: Civilizational and Cultural Issues (427 CE-1197 CE)-Rajiva Kumar Sinha, 2. Pallava Nataraja Iconography and Cosmic Dance: Explorations of Stellar Connections to Orion and Syrius-Sharada Srinivasan, 3. The Transition from rural to urban settlement at Pakkakot, District-Ballia, UP-G K Lama 4. The Monasteries of Rinchen Zangpo in Tibet and India-Benoy K Behl, 5. Tapestry of Nature: Motifs in the GI Handlooms of South India-Githa U Badikillaya, 6. Syncretic Icons of Siva on Gold Coins of Huvishka, Vasudeva and Kaneshko-O P Singh, Swastik Singh, 7. Reflections on the Iconography of some Unique Saivaite Images-L S Nigam, 8. Some Interesting images of Vishnu accomlpanied with the Ayudha Purushas fro U P and Bihar-O P Pandey, Namrata Kumari, 9. Buddhism as a way of Life-Based on a view of Life-Sudha Gopinath, 10. Syncretic Analysis of the Spread of Buddhism into China-Arnav Murthy, 11. Kutch: A Kaleidoscope of Culture and Heritage-Manali B Momaya, 12. A Legacy of Copies-Raja Ravi Varma-Ganesh V Shivaswamy, 13. Communicating with the Past: Cultural Biographies of Historical Monuments Challenging their Archeological Biographies-Ganga Rajinee Dissanayaka, 14. A Landscape Biographical Approach to Lunugamvehera National Park-H M Chryshane Mendis, 15. Golden Touch to the Epic Ramayana: Lai Rot Nam, Golden Lacquer and Varnish Art of Thailand-Anita Bose, 16. Discovery of a rare elliptical structure at Vadnagar: Correlations with findings from Gangetic region-Abhijit S Ambedkar, 17. Reinventing Museums-At the Intersection of Cultural Heritage and Technologies of Tomorrow-Ajit Padmanabh, 18. Holistic Approach in Understanding Temple Activities through Epigraphs-T S Ravishankar, 19. Acoustical Studies of Rock-Cut Hindu Cave Temples in Bengaluru-Harihara Sreenivasa Rao, Late M G Prasad, 20. Exploring the Aesthetic Richness of the Gambhira Mask-Making Tradition and Dance in Dinajpur, West Bengal, India-Nibedita Naskar, 21. The Colourful World of Vesak Pandals in Sri Lanka and Traders Contribution-A Perspective-Wimal Hewamanage, 22. Lingaraj Temple: An Exemplary Model of Kalinga Temple Architecture-Purushottam K Singh, 23. Stylistic Kalachuri Coins of Ratanpur-Vishi Upadhyay, 24. Reverberating 'Buddham Saranam Gacchami': Placemaking, Creating and Transgressing National Identities through Art, Music and Films-Asoka de Zoysa, 25. A Unique Stele at Simhagiri, Old Sringeri, Karnataka-Purnima Srikrishna, 26. The Early Historical Period of the Saryupar Region and its Historical and Cultural Significance-Rajani Singh, 27. Antichak Unveiled: A Study of Iconographical Development of Four Buddhist Sculptures in the Vikramshila Museum-Sarika Kumari, 28. The Fascinating Chala Lingas of Vadnagar-Reflections on their Iconography and Shastric Narratives-Preety A Trivedi, Abhijit Ambekar, Disha Seth, 29. Revisiting Masrur Monolithic Temple Complex, Kangra Vallley, Himachal Pradesh 8th Century CE-Subhasini Aryan, 30. Pre-historic Rock Art of Sundergarh and Sambalpur, Odisha: An Overview-Neena Thakur, 31. GIS application on the study of Pre-historic, Proto-historic and Histolric Eras-Beads in Sri Lanka-Asanka Buddikasiri, P R Madumali A K R, 32. Seeing the State: A Study of the Visuals at Bharhut (c. 2nd to 1st Century BCE)-Shreyashi Chaudhuri, 33. Historicity of Moolarama and Sita of Uttradi Matha-Nidhi Katti, Photographs,