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Temples, texts, and networks : South Indian perspectives

Title
Temples, texts, and networks : South Indian perspectives / edited by Malini Ambach, Jonas Buchholz, and Ute Hüsken.
Author
Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India (Workshop) (2020 : Pondicherry, India), author.
Publication
Heidelberg : HASP, Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2022

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Additional Authors
  • Ambach, Malini
  • Buchholz, Jonas
  • Hüsken, Ute
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, sponsoring body.
Description
333 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Hindu temples > India, South > History > Congresses
  • Hinduism > Sacred books > Congresses. > History and criticism
  • Social networks > India, South > History > Congresses
  • Temples hindous > Inde (Sud) > Histoire
  • Hindouisme > Livres sacrés > Histoire et critique
  • Réseaux sociaux > Inde (Sud) > Histoire
  • Hindu temples
  • Hinduism > Sacred books
  • Social networks
  • South India
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • "This volume is an outcome of the workshop "Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India", which was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ... and conducted from January 20 to January 26, 2020 at the École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in Pondicherry"--Page 5.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Malini Ambach, Jonas Buchholz, Ute Hüsken -- Sthalamāhātmyas and Talapurāṇams of Kanchipuram: A Network of Texts / Jonas Buchholz -- A Survey of the Sthalapurāṇa Literature in Tamil / K. Nachimuthu -- Innovations & Reformulations in Translation: Some Sthalapurāṇas in Tamil / T. Ganesan -- Glory of the Tiruvanantapuram Padmanābhasvāmi Temple as described in the Māhātmyas / S.A.S. Sarma -- Importance of Water Bodies in the Māhātmyas in the Kāverī Region / Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz, R. Sathyanarayanan -- Two Lizards in Kanchipuram's Varadarāja Temple / Ute Hüsken -- "Reading" a Sacred Place Differently: Sarvatīrtha in Kanchipuram's Sanskrit Māhātmyas / Malini Ambach -- Connected Places, Networks of Shrines: Ahobilam in the Nets of Spatial Relationships / Ewa Dębicka-Borek -- Building Networks: Architecture, Ornament and Place in Early Modern South India / Crispin Branfoot -- Grounding the Texts: Kanchi's Urban Logic and Ambitious Extensions / Emma Natalya Stein.
ISBN
  • 9783948791223
  • 3948791228
  • 9783948791230 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • on1369792083
  • 1369792083
  • SCSB-14597764
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library