Mapping the Pasupata Landscape : Narrative, Place, and the Saiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India

Mapping the Pasupata Landscape Narrative, Place, and the Saiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India

In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Śiva devotees called the Pāśupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurāṇa into co...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cecil, Elizabeth A., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2020]
Edition:First edition
Series:Gonda indological studies ; Volume 21.
Subjects:
Religion.
Hinduism > India.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429767906719
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Introduction Mapping a Religious Landscape
  • Chapter 1 A Geographic Imaginary: the Skandapurāṇa, Lakulīśa, and the Localization of Tradition
  • Chapter 2 At the Crossroads: Śaiva Religious Networks in Uparamāla
  • Chapter 3 The Salt Lakes: Pāśupatas and Śaiva Centers in Jambumārga
  • Chapter 4 The Sahya Mountain: Śiva Religion in the Port Polity of the North Konkan
  • Chapter 5 Seeking the 'Lord with a Club': Encountering Lakulīśa in the Pāśupata Landscape
  • Coda Temple, Community, and Heritage-Making
  • Bibliography.

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