Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court / Valerie Stoker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoker, Valerie, 1969- author.

Series:

South Asia across the disciplines.

South Asia across the disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vyāsatīrtha, 1460-1539--Influence.

Hinduism and state--India--Vijayanagar (Empire)--History--16th century.

Hinduism and state.

Vijayanagar (Empire)--Religion--16th century.

Vijayanagar (Empire).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press 2016

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"How did the patronage activities of the Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Contrary to most portraits of the empire as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, in Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. But the motivations behind this selectivity were not always religious. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyāsatīrtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyāsatīrtha played an important role in expanding the empire's economic and social networks. By examining Vyāsatīrtha's polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and socio-political reality under Vijayanagara rule"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration and Translation

1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory

2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Maṭhādhipati at Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Court

3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vyāsatīrtha, Advaita Vedānta, and the Smārta Brahmins

4. Allies or Rivals? Vyāsatīrtha's Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the Śrīvaiṣṇavas

5. The Social Life of Vedānta Philosophy: Vyāsatīrtha's Polemics against Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520965461

0520965469

OCLC:

959728089