Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court / / Valerie Stoker.
"How did the patronage activities of the Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Contrary to most portraits of the empire as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, in Polemics and Patronage in the City of V...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- 1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory
- 2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Maṭhādhipati at Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Court
- 3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vyāsatīrtha, Advaita Vedānta, and the Smārta Brahmins
- 4. Allies or Rivals? Vyāsatīrtha's Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the Śrīvaiṣṇavas
- 5. The Social Life of Vedānta Philosophy: Vyāsatīrtha's Polemics against Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
- 6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index