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Archaeology and text : the temple in South Asia /

Title
Archaeology and text : the temple in South Asia / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray.
Author
Shivdasani Conference 2007, Archaeology and Text: the Temple in South Asia (2007 : Trinity College)
Publication
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006012481
  • Ray, Himanshu Prabha.
Description
xvi, 311 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Temple in South Asia
Subjects
Note
  • Contributed articles presented at the Shivdasani Conference 2007, Archaeology and Text: the Temple in South Asia held at Danson Room, Trinity College, Oxford University, 20-21 October, 2007, moderated by Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Includes passages in Sanskrit
Contents
Introduction / Himanshu Prabha Ray --- Section I. Archaeology of the temple. 1. Creating religious identity: archaeology of early temples in the Malaprabha Valley / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- 2. The Ambika Temple at Jagat / Parul Pandya Dhar -- 3. Textual tradition and the temples of Khajuraho / Devangana Desai -- 4. Ambarnath Siva Temple: sculptured panels illustrating rituals described in temple architecture texts / Kumud Kanitkar -- 5. Absence and presence: worshipping the Jina at Ellora / Lisa N. Owen -- 6. The Kantanagar Temple: Hindu temples in East Bengal under the Mughals / Sandrine Gill -- 7. Money of the Gods: the religious tokens of India / Sanjay Garg -- 8. Sacred space and the making of monuments in colonial Orissa in the early twentieth century / Indra Sengupta --- Section II. Asceticism and the Bhakti Tradition. 9. The temple in Sanskrit legal literature / Patrick Olivelle -- 10. The changes in Indian ritualism: Yajna versus Puja / Natalia R. Lidova -- 11. Seeing the Bhakti Movement / John Stratton Hawley -- 12. World renouncing monks and world celebrating temples and icons: the ritual culture of temples and icons in Jainism / John E. Cort -- 13. Samnyasins in a temple context / T.S. Rukmani.
ISBN
  • 9780198060963
  • 0198060963
LCCN
2009305731
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library