Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India

Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India
Title Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India PDF eBook
Author Anna Aleksandra Ślączka
Publisher BRILL
Pages 429
Release 2007
Genre Social Science
ISBN 900415843X

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This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.

Temples of India: Text

Temples of India: Text
Title Temples of India: Text PDF eBook
Author Krishna Deva
Publisher
Pages 316
Release 1995
Genre Architecture, Hindu
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The Temple Architecture of India

The Temple Architecture of India
Title The Temple Architecture of India PDF eBook
Author Adam Hardy
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 264
Release 2007
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.

The Rock-cut Temples of India

The Rock-cut Temples of India
Title The Rock-cut Temples of India PDF eBook
Author James Fergusson
Publisher
Pages 182
Release 1864
Genre Caves
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Rediscovering the Hindu Temple

Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
Title Rediscovering the Hindu Temple PDF eBook
Author Vinayak Bharne
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 320
Release 2014-09-18
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1443867349

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This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...

The Temple Road Towards a Great India

The Temple Road Towards a Great India
Title The Temple Road Towards a Great India PDF eBook
Author Marta Kudelska
Publisher Wydawnictwo UJ
Pages 580
Release 2019-11-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 8323399867

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This book presents an analysis of the foundations organised by the Birla family in India. Several generations were involved in the renovation and establishment of sanctuaries, temples and other sacral buildings. As a result, between 1933 and 1998, nineteen Birla Mandirs were established, mainly in northern and central India. All the temples have the capacity to surprise with their various decorative motifs, not seen in other places, which – apart from their aesthetic function – above all bear important symbolic content. Therefore, is it possible to treat the Birla Mandirs as a specific medium – the carrier of a particular message that is not only religious, but with a significance that permeates other layers of social and political discourse. This message, as the authors of the book claim, have a bearing on the socio-political thought of India – supported by the creation and propagation of ideas related to identity and a national art. It also conveys the idea of hierarchical Hindu inclusivism which, although considering all religions as equal, treats Hinduism in a unique way – seeing within it the most perfect form of religion, giving man the opportunity to learn the highest truth. The book also examines whether the temples founded by the Birla family and the religious activities undertaken therein apply the concept of “inventing” tradition, and whether traditions created (or “modernised”) in contemporary times are a way of enhancing the appeal of the message conveyed from temple to society. “The Vastness of Culture” is a series of publications presenting cultural studies and emphasizing the role of comparative research and analyses that reveal similarities, differences and intercultural influences. In our publications, cultures and civilizations are in a state of constant flux, engaging in dialogue, creating new understandings, competing for meaning under the influence of global content, without any clear boundaries, but with a vastness that forces questions to be raised.

The Cave Temples of India

The Cave Temples of India
Title The Cave Temples of India PDF eBook
Author James Fergusson
Publisher
Pages 778
Release 1880
Genre Cave temples
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