Assorted Essays by Philip E. Harding

These essays are available for download in zip format. (Except the last one which is in pdf format).

Islamic geometry. An illustrated essay prepared for Later Islamic Art with Dr.  Howard Crane at OSU, Spring 2001.  (File size, 2,436 KB, Word doc format).

Shinto Ritual Building Practices.  An essay prepared for Japanese Art with Dr John Huntington at OSU, Winter 2000.  (Zipped essay in Word doc format with 9 jpgs for reference. File size 971 KB).

The Ganesa Database Project Summary.    Summarizes the finding from a research database created for a seminar on the Hindu god Ganesa with Dr Susan Huntington at OSU, Fall 2000.  (Zipped Word doc with one jpg and NORMYN__.TTF (File size 125KB).

Yellamma: A Goddess with a Bad Reputation   An essay prepared for The Goddess in South Asia with Dr Dina Bangdel at OSU, Spring 2002.  (Word doc, with several jpgs for reference. file size 2,062).

South Asian Geometry and the Durga Temple of Aihole An essay on Hindu temple geometry with an analysis of the eighth-century, Early Western Chalukya, Durga Temple of Aihole. The computer aided analysis of the Durga temple was completed as part of my MA thesis on South Asian Geometry completed at the Ohio State University. The essay posted here was first published in the 2004 edition of South Asian Studies, the Jounal of the Society for South Asian Studies (British Academy) and is the most complete and concise draft of my study on the Durga temple. It is here posted here in Adobe PDF format.