Constructing Kanchi : City of Infinite Temples

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This book traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination during the era of the Pallava and Chola dynasties (circa seventh through thirteenth centuries). It presents the first-ever comprehensive picture of historical Kanchi,...

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Autor principal: Stein, Emma Natalya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pilgrims and pilgrimages > India > Kānchipuram.
Kānchipuram (India) > Religious life and customs > History.
Kānchipuram (India) > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • All Streets Lead to Temples
  • An Ancient City
  • Layers of Time
  • Kanchi Known and Unknown
  • 1 Sandstone and the City
  • Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century)
  • From Brick to Stone (the Seventh Century)
  • Sandstone Temples in the City (the Eighth Century)
  • The Temples of Pallava-Kanchi
  • Everywhere but Kanchi (the Ninth Century)
  • Conclusion: Foundations Laid
  • 2 Realignment
  • Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century)
  • Orienting the Gods
  • Pilgrimage and Processions
  • From Ancient Village to Temple Town
  • Local Style
  • Conclusion: Urban Logic
  • 3 The City and its Ports
  • Part 1: KṢETRA
  • The River Networks
  • Over the Hills
  • The Coast
  • Part II: KṢATRA
  • Kanchi in a Buddhist World
  • The City and its Mirrors
  • Conclusion: From Kanchi to the Sea
  • 4 Kanchi Under Colonialism
  • What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose?
  • Embattled Territory
  • William Daniell's Most Considerable Temple
  • James Wathen's Soaring View
  • Henrietta Clive's 'Hindoo Gods and Monsters'
  • Colonel Colin Mackenzie's Search for the Jains
  • Surgeon George Russell Dartnell
  • James Fergusson's Downward Spiral
  • Prince Alexis Soltykoff's 'City of Infinite Temples'
  • Conclusion: Plastered Pasts
  • Epilogue
  • The Living Temple
  • Encounter
  • Expansion
  • Continuation
  • Bibliography
  • Abbreviations
  • Primary Sources
  • Epigraphic and Archaeological Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index
  • List of Illustrations
  • Illustration 1 Ekāmbaranātha Temple and Sannathi Street, Kanchi, seventh century
  • the present
  • Illustration 2 Map of Kanchi Temples (map by Emma Natalya Stein and Daniel Cole, Smithsonian Institution)
  • Illustration 3 Kailāsanātha Temple, Kanchi, ca. 700-725 CE
  • Illustration 4 Buddha, Kanchi Police Station, twelfth century
  • Illustration 5 Sīteśvara Temple, Kanchi, tenth century
  • Illustration 6 Festival at Kāmākṣī Ammaṉ Temple, Kanchi (July 2014)
  • Illustration 7 Panel 4, Tāṉtōṉṟīśvara Temple, Kanchi, seventh century
  • Illustration 8 Lakṣita cave-temple, Maṇṭakappaṭṭu, ca. 580-630 CE
  • Illustration 9 Brick shrine in quarry area, Ārpākkam
  • Illustration 10 Ekāmbaranātha Temple, Kanchi, Left to right: Roof of Kacci Mayāṉam shrine (tenth century), Pillared Hall (twentieth century), Gateway (seventeenth century), Vṛṣabheśvara Shrine (ninth century), Gateway (sixteenth century)
  • Illustration 11 (Vṛṣabheśvara Shrine at far right) Archaeological Survey of India, A view of the tank from the east, Ekambreswaraswami Temple, Conjeevaram, 1897, photographic print, 21.1 × 25.6 cm, British Library, Photo1008/3(325)
  • Illustration 12 Panel 1-4 (and see Illustration 7), Tāṉtōṉṟīśvara Temple, Kanchi, panels seventh century

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