Many Europeans and Americans got their first glimpse of India through their photographs while the pictures they took during their trips to different Indian temples made those famous, he was quoted as saying by The Daily Star Tuesday.

Samuel Berthet, director of Alliance Francaise in Chittagong, said the remarkable work of Danielou and Burnier - creating an artistic inventory of the motifs and sculptures found on ancient Indian temples - is an invaluable heritage for the aesthetic and semantic appreciation of the civilisation of the subcontinent.