Aesthetics has tended to be Eurocentric over the years. In fact, in many places there has been a reluctance to recognize non-western works as art at all. A museum in New Jersey, for example, put an entire collection of Himalayan art in the Natural History area. The message: these are artifacts, not art. So we will want to take a look into non-western traditions.
Start here with materials on Indian Iconography.
And here for an interpretation of symbols associated with Shiva
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