Mapping the Pasupata Landscape : : Narrative, Place, and the Saiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India / / Elizabeth A. Cecil.

In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Śiva devotees called the Pāśupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurāṇa into co...

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Superior document:Gonda Indological Studies ; Volume 21
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Gonda indological studies ; Volume 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Introduction Mapping a Religious Landscape
  • Chapter 1 A Geographic Imaginary: the Skandapurāṇa, Lakulīśa, and the Localization of Tradition
  • Chapter 2 At the Crossroads: Śaiva Religious Networks in Uparamāla
  • Chapter 3 The Salt Lakes: Pāśupatas and Śaiva Centers in Jambumārga
  • Chapter 4 The Sahya Mountain: Śiva Religion in the Port Polity of the North Konkan
  • Chapter 5 Seeking the 'Lord with a Club': Encountering Lakulīśa in the Pāśupata Landscape
  • Coda Temple, Community, and Heritage-Making
  • Bibliography.