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Temples, texts, and networks : South Indian perspectives / edited by Malini Ambach, Jonas Buchholz, and Ute Hüsken.
Van Pelt Library BL1243.74 .N48 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Networks of Temples and Networks of Texts in South India (Workshop) (2020 : Pondicherry, India), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu temples--India, South--History--Congresses.
- Hindu temples.
- Hinduism--Sacred books--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Hinduism.
- Social networks--India, South--History--Congresses.
- Social networks.
- Hindu temples--India, South--History.
- Hinduism--Sacred books--History and criticism.
- Social networks--India, South--History.
- Hinduism--Sacred books.
- South India.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg : HASP, Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2022
- 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.
- Notes:
- "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.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783948791223
- 3948791228
- OCLC:
- 1369792083
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