Main entry:

Shivdasani Conference 2007, Archaeology and Text: the Temple in South Asia (2007 : Trinity College)

Title & Author:

Archaeology and text : the temple in South Asia / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray.

Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Description:

xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Creating religious identity: archaeology of early temples in the Malaprabha Valley / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- The Ambikā Temple at Jagat / Parul Pandya Dhar -- Textual tradition and the temples of Khajuraho / Devangana Desai -- Ambarnath Śiva Temple: sculptured panels illustrating rituals described in temple architecture texts / Kumud Kanitkar -- Absence and presence: worshipping the Jina at Ellora / Lisa N. Owen -- The Kāntānagar Temple: Hindu temples in East Bengal under the Mughals / Sandrine Gill -- Money of the Gods: the religious tokens of India / Sanjay Garg -- Sacred space and the making of monuments in colonial Orissa in the early twentieth century / Indra Sengupta --- The temple in Sanskrit legal literature / Patrick Olivelle -- The changes in Indian ritualism: Yajńa versus Pūjā / Natalia R. Lidova -- Seeing the Bhakti Movement / John Stratton Hawley -- World renouncing monks and world celebrating temples and icons: the ritual culture of temples and icons in Jainism / John E. Cort -- Samnyāsins in a temple context / T.S. Rukmani.
Includes passages in Sanskrit (roman).
Dust jacket.
Includes passages in Sanskrit

Summary:

Contributed articles presented at the Shivdasani Conference 2007, Archaeology and Text: the Temple in South Asia held at Danson Room, Trinity College, Oxford University, 201-21 October, 2007 on socio-cultural aspects of Hindu temples, its architecture and sacred spaces per se predominantly studied in context of Indian temples moderated by Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

ISBN:

9780198060963
0198060963

Subject:

Hindu temples Social aspects India Congresses.
Hindu architecture Social aspects India Congresses.
Sacred space India Congresses.
Temples hindous Aspect social Inde Congrès.
Architecture hindoue Aspect social Inde Congrès.
Lieux sacrés Inde Congrès.
Hindu temples Social aspects.
Sacred space.
India.

Form/genre:

Congresses.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Ray, Himanshu Prabha.
Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

Temple in South Asia

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275482
Call No.: BIB 209741
Status: Available