Lives of Indian Images / / Richard H. Davis.
For many centuries, Hindus have taken it for granted that the religious images they place in temples and home shrines for purposes of worship are alive. Hindu priests bring them to life through a complex ritual "establishment" that invokes the god or goddess into material support. Priests...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 50 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Translation and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Living Images
- 2. Trophies of War
- 3. Images Overthrown
- 4. Visnu's Miraculous Returns
- 5. Indian Images Collected
- 6. Reconstructions of Somanatha
- 7. Loss and Recovery of Ritual Self
- Conclusion: Identities and Manifestations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Bibliographic Appendix
- Index