Mapping the Pāśupata landscape: narrative, place, and the Śaiva 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 conversati...

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Published in:Gonda indological studies
Main Author: Cecil, Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2020
In: Gonda indological studies (volume 21)
Series/Journal:Gonda indological studies volume 21
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pashupatas / Geography
Further subjects:B Art ; Historiography
B Species Historiography
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Summary: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 conversation with physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons in order to examine the ways in which Pāśupatas were emplaced in regional landscapes and to emphasize the use of material culture as media through which notions of belonging and identity were expressed. By exploring the ties between the formation of early Pāśupata communities and the locales in which they were embedded, this study reflects critically upon the ways in which community building was coincident with place-making in Early Medieval India
Item Description:Gesehen am 27.03.2020
ISBN:9004424423
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004424425