Title meaning in English: Indian Mythology.
For a long time I had on my eye publishing series that started with fully illustrated creature book dedicated to creatures from Slavic folklore. Since then I saw that they published multiple such books, dedicated to demons, ghosts and such, but they were focusing on closer folklore and mythology of Poland and wider Slavic world. But when I found book about Indian mythology in the same style I finally decided to buy.
It is nice book, perhaps not coffee table book, due to its text to picture ratio too big to count as one, but it can serve for similar purposes. I’m not sure if books like that are intended for such reading, but I read it from deck to deck.
Illustrations are amazing. Limited palette with vivid colors. Minimalistic style and using grainy gradients instead of flat colors. Sometimes they were more abstract, but they worked on imagination. The only downside I could find is that there were too little of them. Sometimes it felt arbitrary which entries get illustrations. Some main gods and goddesses get illustrations, some not. Only one avatara of Vishnu get its illustration.
Descriptions were pleasant to read and I felt like I swallow the book very quickly. What was missing for me, although I know it would change the scope of the book, was certain placement of the gods and goddesses in historical evolution of the faith or their sectarian placement. I know otherwise that some of gods or creatures are no longer worshipped widely or at all. Format of the book would be probably more proper for something like Greek mythology which has its myths set in stone of history.
I learned a little bit, especially at the part of creatures. I already knew main gods and goddesses or the most popular stories from Mahabharata. Descriptions sometimes were brief, but vivid enough that it makes my imagination churn.