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Benares : the sacred landscape of Vārāṇasī / Niels Gutschow.
Main entry:

Gutschow, Niels.

Title & Author:

Benares : the sacred landscape of Vārāṇasī / Niels Gutschow.

Publication:

Stuttgart ; London : Edition Axel Menges, ©2006.

Description:

498 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Picture Maps -- The "Victoria & Albert Museum picture map" -- The "Delhi Museum picture map" -- Saptapuriyatradiprakasapatram -- The Kasidarpana -- Mirror of Kasi of Kailasanatha Sukula, 1876 -- The Kasidarpanapurti of Krsnacandra Sarma, 1877 -- The Kasi Citra -- the "Image of Kasi" of Sri G. Vandopadhyaya in 1940 -- Sri Kasi Pancakrosi Tirthasarsana, 1970 -- Pancakrosi ka Manacitra, by Sivananda Sarasvati, 1991 -- The Map of Kashi, c. 1975 -- Bharata Mata -- maps of India as objects of worship -- Part II. Built Maps -- Pancakrosi Mandir -- Krsna Degah -- a temple in Patan, Nepal -- Temple compounds as miniature sacred landscape -- Part III. Sacred Territories -- Pilgrimages -- Pancakrosiyatra -- Avimukta -- Muktiksetra -- Antargrhayatra -- Part IV. The Grammar of Sanctification -- Duplication and multiplication -- the grammar of creating a sacred landscape -- Gracing and protecting territories -- groups of temples and places -- Part V. Panoramas -- A Complete View of the Benares City, dated c. 1911 -- The Map of Kashi -- Asali Bada Naksa Kasi Ka, printed c. 1975 -- Panorama photograph by Stanislaw Klimek, 21st November 2000 -- Part VI. Topographical Maps -- The myth of "objective" geographical representation -- the emergence of modern mapping in India -- Topographical maps of Varanasi.
Dust jacket.
ISBN:

393668104X
9783936681048

Subject:

Pilgrims and pilgrimages India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Hindu temples India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Lingas (Śaivism) India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Pèlerins et pèlerinages Inde Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Temples hindous Inde Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Linga Inde Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Lingas (Śaivism)
Hindu temples
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) Religious life and customs.
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, Inde) Vie religieuse.
India Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248775
Call No.: NA6008.V3 G8 2006
Status: Available

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