Shiva S Waterfront Temples

Author : Subhashini Kaligotla
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300258943

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Shiva's Waterfront Temples by Subhashini Kaligotla Pdf

This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers. The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and the coronation place of the Chalukya dynasty, Pattadakal and its neighboring sites are of major historical importance. In Shiva's Waterfront Temples, Subhashini Kaligotla situates these buildings in the cosmopolitan milieu of Deccan India and considers how their makers and awestruck visitors would have seen them in their day. Kaligotla reconstructs how architects and builders approached the sites, including their use of ornamentation, responsiveness to courtly values such as pleasure and play, and ingenious juxtaposition of the first millennium's Nagara and Dravida aesthetics, a blend largely unique to Deccan plateau architecture. With over 130 color illustrations, this original book elucidates the Deccan's special place in the lexicon of medieval South Asian architecture.

Author : Neil Murphy,W. Michelle Wang,Cheryl Julia Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003807308

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art by Neil Murphy,W. Michelle Wang,Cheryl Julia Lee Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts. Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television. Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture. The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781105703706

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In the land of temples: Notes from a South Indian pilgrimage by Michael Steinberg Pdf

The land of temples is South India, the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. It's been called the last surviving classical civilization, a land where there is room for temples large and small and time for rituals passed down for millennia. In four brief essays and two dozen evocative black-and-white photographs scholar and devotee Michael Steinberg takes readers into the inner sanctuaries of ancient temples and out again into the teeming streets of contemporary Chennai. A big book in a little package, his deeply personal story also sheds light on the enduring importance of a way of life that has its roots in the dawn of civilization itself.

Author : John R. Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317344476

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Religions in Practice by John R. Bowen Pdf

Examines religious practices from an anthropological perspective Religions in Practice, 6/e, offers an issues-oriented perspective on everyday religious behaviors – prayer, sacrifice, initiation, healing, etc. – by focusing on such topics as transnationalism, gender, and religious laws. The text examines a full spectrum of religions, from small-scale societies to major, established religions. The in-depth treatment of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity is particularly noteworthy and easily supplemented with field projects directly related to the text.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray,Salila Kulshreshtha,Uthara Suvrathan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000785814

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The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples by Himanshu Prabha Ray,Salila Kulshreshtha,Uthara Suvrathan Pdf

This handbook is a comprehensive study of the archaeology, social history and the cultural landscape of the Hindu temple. Perhaps the most recognizable of the material forms of Hinduism, temples are lived, dynamic spaces. They are significant sites for the creation of cultural heritage, both in the past and in the present. Drawing on historiographical surveys and in-depth case studies, the volume centres the material form of the Hindu temple as an entry point to study its many adaptations and transformations from the early centuries CE to the 20th century. It highlights the vibrancy and dynamism of the shrine in different locales and studies the active participation of the community for its establishment, maintenance and survival. The illustrated handbook takes a unique approach by focusing on the social base of the temple rather than its aesthetics or chronological linear development. It fills a significant gap in the study of Hinduism and will be an indispensable resource for scholars of archaeology, Hinduism, Indian history, religious studies, museum studies, South Asian history and Southeast Asian history. Chapters 1, 4 and 5 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Larry Silver,Kevin Terraciano
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065976

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Canons and Values by Larry Silver,Kevin Terraciano Pdf

A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art, and interrogates the canons of cultures and regions that have often been left at the margins of art history. It underscores the historical and geographical diversity of canons and the local values underlying them. Twelve international scholars consider how canons are constructed and contested, focusing on the relationship between canonical objects and the value systems that shape their hierarchies. Deploying an array of methodologies—including archaeological investigations, visual analysis, and literary critique—the authors examine canon formation throughout the world, including Africa, India, East Asia, Mesoamerica, South America, ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and Europe. Global studies of art, which are dismantling the traditionally Eurocentric canon, promise to make art history more inclusive. But enduring canons cannot be dismissed. This volume raises new questions about the importance of canons—including those from outside Europe—for the wider discipline of art history.

Author : T. Richard Blurton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674391896

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Hindu Art by T. Richard Blurton Pdf

From the linga of Shiva to ritual lamps, from a Vishnu temple to a heap of stones streaked with sacred vermilion, from illustrations of the epic adventures of Rama to a terracotta goddess figurine, the art Hinduism has inspired over the centuries is as rich and various as the religion itself - and, for most Westerners, as unknown. Hindu Art offers a key to this mystery. A splendid, richly illustrated introduction, the book opens to readers the manifold glories of the religious art of the Indian subcontinent. The narratives that Hindu artists illustrate, the gods they depict, and the forms they observe are the products of thousands of years of tradition and development. In a survey that stretches back to prehistory, T. Richard Blurton discusses religious, cultural and historical influences that figure in Hindu art, as well as those that Hinduism shares with Buddhism and Jainism. Tracing the development of Hindu art, he shows how it has come to embrace the widely varying styles of regions from Nepal to Afghanistan, from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh. Against this historical background, Blurton considers the use of images from the three major cults of Hinduism - the worship of Shiva, Vishnu and the Great Goddess - in painting, sculpture and temple architecture. As fascinating as it is informative, Hindu Art offers invaluable insight into one of the world's great and ancient cultures. It will prove an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in the art of India.

Author : Padma Kaimal
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295747781

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Opening Kailasanatha by Padma Kaimal Pdf

Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in southeastern India, built by rulers who were both warriors and ascetics, engaged in the work of this world and in spiritual quests. They designed their temple as an exuberant visual feast to sustain both modes of being. In Opening Kailasanatha, Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of the monument’s makers, reaching back across centuries to illuminate worldviews of the ancient Indic south. She reveals how circling the complex in a clockwise direction focuses the mind and spirit on worldly engagement; in a counterclockwise direction, on renunciation and ascetic practice. This pairing of highly charged, complementary pathways enabled devotees to grasp these counterpoised opportunities in their own listening, gazing, moving bodies. By focusing on the material form of the complex—the architecture, inscriptions, and sculptures, along with the spaces they carve out that guide light, shadow, sound, and footsteps—Kaimal offers insights that complement what surviving texts tell us about Shaiva Siddhanta ideas and practices, providing a rare opportunity to walk in the distant past.

Author : EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789355561206

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SBI Apprentice Exam 2022 | 1500+ Solved Questions (10 Mock Tests + 12 Sectional Tests + 2 Previous Year Papers) by EduGorilla Prep Experts Pdf

• Best Selling Book in English Edition for SBI Apprentice Exam with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the SBI. • Compare your performance with other students using Smart Answer Sheets in EduGorilla’s SBI Apprentice Exam Practice Kit. • SBI Apprentice Exam Preparation Kit comes with 24 Tests (10 Mock Tests + 12 Sectional Tests + 2 Previous Year Papers) with the best quality content. • Increase your chances of selection by 14X. • SBI Apprentice Exam Prep Kit comes with well-structured and 100% detailed solutions for all the questions. • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.

Author : John Richard Bowen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110332025

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Religions in Practice by John Richard Bowen Pdf

Author : ARIF AHMAD DAR
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359078424

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ANCIENT HINDU TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE OF SOUTH KASMIR FROM 3rd CENTUARY A.D. TO 10thCENTUARY A.D. by ARIF AHMAD DAR Pdf

Author : Tony Wheeler
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0908086679

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South-East Asia on a Shoestring by Tony Wheeler Pdf

Author : Rajesh Bedi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Varanasi (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015032739834

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Banaras, City of Shiva by Rajesh Bedi Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Kerala (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015066411144

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Stark World Kerala by Anonim Pdf

When People Talk Of Kerala As The Destination Of A Lifetime, It Is No Exaggeration. She Is Like An Intricately Worked Tapestry That Simply Overwhelms You. Stark World Kerala Unfolds Its Varied Attractions: Fascinating History, Rich Culture, Interesting Customs, Unique Architecture, An Alternative System Of Health, Superlative Food, And Powerful Art Forms. A Large Part Is Devoted To Travel In Kerala. The State Is Divided Into Six Sections On The Basis Of Geography And Each Takes The Reader Through The Life And Culture Of The Place Along With Detailed Information On The Places Of Interest And Things To Do. The Following Features Make The Book Interesting As Well As Informative: Impressions Opinions Of Famous People On Kerala Legends; Tales About The Land And Its Customs. Over 1,000 Stunning Visuals That Bring Out The Beauty Of Kerala. The A To Z Resource Section That Lists Out Vital Information For Those Visiting Kerala For The First Time. Listings That Tell You Where To Eat/ Buy/ Visit/ Pray/ Stay Complete With Addresses, Phone Numbers, E-Mail Ids And Websites. For The Inveterate Traveller, There Are Detailed Maps For Each Section And Reviews Of Books And Cds That Give You An Understanding Of The Lay Of The Land.

Author : Rana P. B. Singh
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004826923

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Where the Buddha Walked by Rana P. B. Singh Pdf

This book is the first attempt to describe all the fifteen placeswith which the Buddha had direct association: Lumbini,Kapilavastu, Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Sarnath, Shravasti,Kaushambi, Rajagriha, Nalanda, Vaishali, Patna, Kesariya,Kushinagar, Sankisa, and Mathura. The sequence of the fifteenBuddhist places follows the life-cycle and the journeysperformed by the Buddha as narrated in the JÈtakas and theTripi aka.Narration of each of these places accounts the mythology,legend, JÈtaka tales, cultural history, archaeology, field studiesand general information. The book is illustrated with 55photographs and 55 maps and figures, and also contains adescription of the main link stations like Varanasi, Allahabadand Gorakhpur. Nearby sites for excursion are also describedin the context.