Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape

Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42394-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 720 g

Reihe: Gonda Indological Studies

In Mapping the Pasupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Saiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Siva devotees called the Pasupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurana into conversation with physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons in order to examine the ways in which Pasupatas 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 Pasupata 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cecil, Elizabeth A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: Mapping a Religious Landscape

1 A Geographic Imaginary: the Skandapurana, Lakulisa and the Localization of Tradition

2 At the Crossroads: Saiva Religious Networks in Uparamala

3 The Salt Lakes: Pasupatas and Saiva Centers in Jambumarga

4 The Sahya Mountain: Siva Religion in the Port Polity of the North Konkan

5 Seeking the ‘Lord with a Club’: Encountering Lakulisa in the Pasupata Landscape

Coda: Temple, Community, and Heritage-Making

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth A. Cecil, Ph.D. (2016), is Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Her scholarship explores the history of Hindu religions in South and Southeast Asia through the study of text, image, monument, and landscape.