Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court

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

"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 V...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stoker, Valerie, 1969- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2016
Berkeley, CA : [2016]
Edition:1st ed
Series:South Asia across the disciplines.
Subjects:
Vyāsatīrtha, > 1460-1539 > Influence.
Hinduism and state > India > Vijayanagar (Empire) > History > 16th century.
Vijayanagar (Empire) > Religion > 16th century.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427913706719
Table of 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

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