Holy Ground : Where Art and Text Meet / Hans T. Bakker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakker, H. (Hans), author.

Series:

Gonda indological studies ; Volume 20.

Gonda Indological Studies ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2019

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study of text and art in close combination in the actual field where they meet provides a great potential for understanding. The history of holy places is therefore one of the leitmotivs that binds these studies together. One article, "The Ramtek Inscriptions II", was co-authored by Harunaga Isaacson, two articles, on "Moksadharma 187 and 239–241" and "The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon," by Peter C. Bisschop.

Contents:

Intro

Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet: Studies in the Cultural History of India

Copyright

Table of Contents

Part I Early Studies 1986-2000

1 An Indian Image of Man: An Inquiry into a change of perspective in the Hindu world-view

Introduction

The Indian understanding of perfect man

The 'Raw Material'

The Sufis

The Yogis

The Sants

The Bhaktas

Epilogue

2 Die Indische Herausforderung: Hegels Beitrag zu einer europäischen kulturhistorischen Diskussion

Einleitung

Die Jahre 1820-1825

Neue Einsichten

Die Jahre 1826-1831

Die Rezeption der Bhagavadgītā

Von Humboldts Bhagavadgītā Vorträge und Hegels Kritik

Schlussbetrachtung

Schlussmoral

3 Ayodhyā: le nom et le lieu

Ayodhyā conçue : le nom

Ayodhyā retrouvée : le lieu

Illiers-Combray

4 Ayodhyā: A Hindu Jerusalem: An investigation of 'Holy War' as a religious idea in the light of communal unrest in India

Holy war as a religious idea

Five conditions of 'holy war'

The Hindu religion and the social reality of war

The advent of Islam

The segregation of the Hindu and Muslim communities

The idea of the Rāma rājya

The Kingdom of Avadh

The emerging conflict around the Babri Masjid in Ayodhyā

Ayodhyā: a Hindu Jerusalem

The fight for the Rāmajanmabhūmi/Babri Masjid

5 The Ramtek Inscriptions I

The graffiti

The two short Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple inscriptions

Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple Ramtek Inscription No. 1

Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple Ramtek Inscription No. 2

The Ramtek Stone Inscription of the time of Rāmacandra

Synopsis of the contents

Editorial principles

Edition

Translation

6 The Ramtek Inscriptions II: The Vākāṭaka inscription in the Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple (Together with Harunaga Isaacson)

Palaeography.

Note on the edition and translation

Text

Divergent readings of Jamkhedkar's edition

Annotation

Analysis and interpretation

Vākāṭaka Gupta relations

7 Throne and Temple: Political power and religious prestige in Vidarbha

The Vākāṭaka period

The Vākāṭaka inscriptions

Policy of the Vākāṭaka kings

The Yādava period

Ramtek Hill: Theatre of Plenipotentiaries

8 Little Kṛṣṇa's Play with the Moon

The literary evidence

Baby Kṛṣṇa's play with the moon

The archaeological evidence

Conclusion

9 Some Methodological Considerations with Respect to the Critical Edition of Puranic Literature

The theory of 'oral composition'

Composition-in-transmission

The critical edition of epic and puranic literature

The critical edition of the Ayodhyāmāhātmya

10 Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa I

The wedding of Śiva and Parvatī

Śiva's exclusion from the sacrifice

Śiva as the cosmic child

Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara

The synoptic edition of the Svayaṃvara myth

Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara: A Textual Reconstruction

11 Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241 Reconsidered (Together with Peter Bisschop)

Preamble

Three themes

The five elements

The intellectual apparatus

Sattva and kṣetrajña

The 'evolution theory'

The Mokṣadharma: a plurality of views

Appendix: Some parallels of Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241

12 Observations on the History and Culture of Dakṣiṇa Kosala (5th to 7th centuries ad)

The Pāṇḍavas of Mekalā

The family descending from Amara in Kosala

The rulers of Śarabhapur

The Pāṇḍuvaṃśa of Śrīpura

The date of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśa dynasty of Śrīpura

Tīvaradeva

Mahāśivagupta Bālārjuna

Tālā

The Jiṭhānī Temple.

13 Somaśarman, Somavaṃśa and Somasiddhānta A Pāśupata tradition in seventh-century Dakṣiṇa Kosala: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa III

Harāya Namaḥ

Śaiva cosmology

The Pāśupata movement

The epigraphical evidence from Malhar

Malhar (Junvānī) Copperplates of Mahāśivagupta, Year 57: ll. 8-23

Interpretation

Somaśarman and the Somasiddhānta

The evidence of the Skandapurāṇa

Somaśarman, Somavaṃśa and Somasiddhānta

Part II: Studies in the Early History and Culture of North India

14 A Theatre of Broken Dreams: Vidiśā in the days of Gupta hegemony

Prologue

Act 1: Rāmagupta

The story of the Devīcandragupta

Candragupta's matrimonial policy and the triangle of power

Act 2 Govindagupta

The testimony of Prabhākara

Act 3 Ghaṭotkacagupta

Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra

The Vākāṭaka-Gupta conflict

Finale

15 Royal Patronage and Religious Tolerance: The formative period of Gupta-Vākāṭaka culture

Udayagiri

Royal patronage

Mandhal

Padmapura

Muṇḍasvāmin

Rāmagiri

Mansar

16 Rāma's Hill: Transgression and atonement on a Hill in the South and the inadequacy of substitutes

The Śaivala Mountain of the Rāmāyaṇa

The Rāmagiri

The epigraphical evidence

Viṣṇupada

Narasiṃha

The Pilgrim's Satchel

17 A New Interpretation of Rāmagiri Evidence

1 Trivikrama: Word and Statue

Maṅgalavāda: Kevala Narasim. ha Temple (KNT) Inscription verse 1

The KNT Inscription verse 21

The discovery of the KNT Inscription

2 The Gupta-Vākāṭaka Relationship

The Praśasti. KNT Inscription verses 2-19

Conjectured narrative structure of the KNT Inscription

The Daughter named Muṇḍa

The Gupta-Vākāṭaka relationship

The narration of the KNT Inscription

3 The Trivikrama Temple

Preamble.

The Trivikrama Temple

The iconography of the Trivikrama image

The pious works of Atibhāvatī

18 A Note on Skandagupta's Bhitarī Stone Pillar: Inscription, verses 8-12 Commemorating the dead

Ajay Mitra Shastri

Skandagupta's Bhitarī Inscription vv. 8-12

Concluding remarks on the inscription and the site of Bhitarī

Appendix

Skandagupta's Bhitarī Stone Pillar Inscription vv. 8-12

19 The So-called: 'Jaunpur Stone Inscription of Īśvaravarman'

The Jaunpur Stone Inscription

Translation and annotation

20 The Temple of Maṇḍaleśvarasvāmin: The Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription of the time of Udayasena reconsidered

The temple on Muṇḍeśvarī Hill

The date of the Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription

The Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription, Year 30

Transliteration

Emended, orthographic edition

Maṇḍaleśvara and the Skandapurāṇa

21 Monuments to the Dead in Ancient North India

The funerary monument in Sanskrit literature

The aiḍūka of the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa

The eḍūka

The archaeology of the funerary monument

Memorials

Pratimāgṛhas

Memorial Stones

Aiḍūkas

Ahichhatra

Funerary monuments with mortuary deposits

Sui Vihar

The archaeology of the śmaśanā

The Kumhāra Ṫekḍī in Ujjain

The eḍūka at Mansar

A funerary monument to Prabhāvatī Gupta?

Aiḍūkarūpanirmāṇa Viṣṇudharmottara 3.84.1-15 (emended)

22 Puruṣamedha, Manasarapuruṣa, Vāstupuruṣa: The image of man in the sacrificial context

The image of man

Human sacrifice in India

Installation of the house or Vāstupratiṣṭha

Excursus upon the construction of the gnicayana altar

Preliminary conclusion

Archaeological evidence for the construction sacrifice

Kauśāmbī

Mansar.

The Vāstupuruṣa

Kandhar

Curdi

Final remark

23 Rama Devotion in a Śaiva Holy Place: The case of Vārāṇasī

Tulsīdās, Śiva, and the Name

The Agastyasaṃhitā

The Tradition of the saving mantra

The Kāśīkhaṇḍa

The Skandapurāṇa

Textual criticism

The saving mantra in the Skandapurāṇa

Avimukta

24 The Hindu Religion and War

Aśoka and ancient warfare in India

The Arthaśāstra

The principle of ahiṃsā and the rules of war

Ahiṃsā

The Bhagavadgītā

The rules of war

The reports of Megasthenes and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa

The idea of a 'just war'

The battle and the sacrifice

Hinduism and Islam

The conquest of northern India

The case of Vārāṇasī

Part III: Studies in Early Saivism

25 Sources for Reconstructing Ancient Forms of Śiva Worship

Śiva Caturmukha

The myth of Tilottamā

Images of Śiva in his quadruple form

Epigraphic sources attesting the worship of Śiva

Early Sanskrit sources of liṅga worship

The Pāśupatasūtra and its commentary

The Mahābhārata

The Rāmāyaṇa

Concluding observations

Conclusions

Textual sources

26 At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and Śaiva initiation

The sitting position of teacher and pupil in the Vedic Upanayana ritual

The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa

The Gṛhyasūtras

The sitting position of the preceptor and his audience

The sitting position of guru and novice in arly Śaiva initiation ritual

Initiation in the Pāśupata tradition

The Dakṣiṇāmūrti

The definition of god's figure of grace

The Dakṣiṇāmūrti and iconography

The development of a cult concept into an iconic image

A Dakṣiṇāmūrti on a crossbar found in Nagarī

Dakṣa's sacrifice and his instruction in the Pāśupata vrata.

27 Thanesar, the Pāśupata Order and the Skandapurāṇa: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa IX.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-41207-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004412071 DOI

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