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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cecil, Elizabeth A., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2020]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Gonda indological studies ; Volume 21.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429767906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.