Holy Ground : : Where Art and Text Meet / / Hans T. Bakker.

• Superior document: Gonda Indological Studies ; Volume 20
• VerfasserIn: Bakker, H.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Gonda indological studies ; Volume 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study of text and art in close combination in the actual field where they meet provides a great potential for understanding. The history of holy places is therefore one of the leitmotivs that binds these studies together. One article, "The Ramtek Inscriptions II", was co-authored by Harunaga Isaacson, two articles, on "Moksadharma 187 and 239–241" and "The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon," by Peter C. Bisschop.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet: Studies in the Cultural History of India -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Part I Early Studies 1986-2000 -- 1 An Indian Image of Man: An Inquiry into a change of perspective in the Hindu world-view -- Introduction -- The Indian understanding of perfect man -- The 'Raw Material' -- The Sufis -- The Yogis -- The Sants -- The Bhaktas -- Epilogue -- 2 Die Indische Herausforderung: Hegels Beitrag zu einer europäischen kulturhistorischen Diskussion -- Einleitung -- Die Jahre 1820-1825 -- Neue Einsichten -- Die Jahre 1826-1831 -- Die Rezeption der Bhagavadgītā -- Von Humboldts Bhagavadgītā Vorträge und Hegels Kritik -- Schlussbetrachtung -- Schlussmoral -- 3 Ayodhyā: le nom et le lieu -- Ayodhyā conçue : le nom -- Ayodhyā retrouvée : le lieu -- Illiers-Combray -- 4 Ayodhyā: A Hindu Jerusalem: An investigation of 'Holy War' as a religious idea in the light of communal unrest in India -- Introduction -- Holy war as a religious idea -- Five conditions of 'holy war' -- The Hindu religion and the social reality of war -- The advent of Islam -- The segregation of the Hindu and Muslim communities -- The idea of the Rāma rājya -- The Kingdom of Avadh -- The emerging conflict around the Babri Masjid in Ayodhyā -- Ayodhyā: a Hindu Jerusalem -- The fight for the Rāmajanmabhūmi/Babri Masjid -- Epilogue -- 5 The Ramtek Inscriptions I -- Introduction -- The graffiti -- The two short Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple inscriptions -- Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple Ramtek Inscription No. 1 -- Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple Ramtek Inscription No. 2 -- The Ramtek Stone Inscription of the time of Rāmacandra -- Synopsis of the contents -- Editorial principles -- Edition -- Translation -- 6 The Ramtek Inscriptions II: The Vākāṭaka inscription in the Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple (Together with Harunaga Isaacson) -- Introduction -- Palaeography.

Note on the edition and translation -- Text -- Divergent readings of Jamkhedkar's edition -- Translation -- Annotation -- Analysis and interpretation -- Vākāṭaka Gupta relations -- 7 Throne and Temple: Political power and religious prestige in Vidarbha -- Introduction -- The Vākāṭaka period -- The Vākāṭaka inscriptions -- Policy of the Vākāṭaka kings -- The Yādava period -- Ramtek Hill: Theatre of Plenipotentiaries -- 8 Little Kṛṣṇa's Play with the Moon -- The literary evidence -- Baby Kṛṣṇa's play with the moon -- The archaeological evidence -- Conclusion -- 9 Some Methodological Considerations with Respect to the Critical Edition of Puranic Literature -- Introduction -- The theory of 'oral composition' -- Composition-in-transmission -- The critical edition of epic and puranic literature -- The critical edition of the Ayodhyāmāhātmya -- 10 Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa I -- Introduction -- The wedding of Śiva and Parvatī -- Śiva's exclusion from the sacrifice -- Śiva as the cosmic child -- Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara -- The synoptic edition of the Svayaṃvara myth -- Conclusion -- Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara: A Textual Reconstruction -- 11 Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241 Reconsidered (Together with Peter Bisschop) -- Preamble -- Three themes -- The five elements -- The intellectual apparatus -- Sattva and kṣetrajña -- The 'evolution theory' -- The Mokṣadharma: a plurality of views -- Appendix: Some parallels of Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241 -- 12 Observations on the History and Culture of Dakṣiṇa Kosala (5th to 7th centuries ad) -- Introduction -- The Pāṇḍavas of Mekalā -- The family descending from Amara in Kosala -- The rulers of Śarabhapur -- The Pāṇḍuvaṃśa of Śrīpura -- The date of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśa dynasty of Śrīpura -- Tīvaradeva -- Mahāśivagupta Bālārjuna -- Tālā -- The Jiṭhānī Temple.

13 Somaśarman, Somavaṃśa and Somasiddhānta A Pāśupata tradition in seventh-century Dakṣiṇa Kosala: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa III -- Harāya Namaḥ -- Śaiva cosmology -- The Pāśupata movement -- The epigraphical evidence from Malhar -- Malhar (Junvānī) Copperplates of Mahāśivagupta, Year 57: ll. 8-23 -- Translation -- Interpretation -- Somaśarman and the Somasiddhānta -- The evidence of the Skandapurāṇa -- Somaśarman, Somavaṃśa and Somasiddhānta -- Part II: Studies in the Early History and Culture of North India -- 14 A Theatre of Broken Dreams: Vidiśā in the days of Gupta hegemony -- Prologue -- Act 1: Rāmagupta -- The story of the Devīcandragupta -- Candragupta's matrimonial policy and the triangle of power -- Act 2 Govindagupta -- The testimony of Prabhākara -- Act 3 Ghaṭotkacagupta -- Kālidāsa's Mālavikāgnimitra -- The Vākāṭaka-Gupta conflict -- Finale -- Epilogue -- 15 Royal Patronage and Religious Tolerance: The formative period of Gupta-Vākāṭaka culture -- Udayagiri -- Royal patronage -- Mandhal -- Padmapura -- Muṇḍasvāmin -- Rāmagiri -- Mansar -- Conclusion -- 16 Rāma's Hill: Transgression and atonement on a Hill in the South and the inadequacy of substitutes -- Preamble -- The Śaivala Mountain of the Rāmāyaṇa -- The Rāmagiri -- The epigraphical evidence -- Viṣṇupada -- Narasiṃha -- The Pilgrim's Satchel -- Conclusion -- 17 A New Interpretation of Rāmagiri Evidence -- 1 Trivikrama: Word and Statue -- Preamble -- Maṅgalavāda: Kevala Narasim. ha Temple (KNT) Inscription verse 1 -- The KNT Inscription verse 21 -- The discovery of the KNT Inscription -- 2 The Gupta-Vākāṭaka Relationship -- Preamble -- The Praśasti. KNT Inscription verses 2-19 -- Conjectured narrative structure of the KNT Inscription -- The Daughter named Muṇḍa -- The Gupta-Vākāṭaka relationship -- The narration of the KNT Inscription -- 3 The Trivikrama Temple -- Preamble.

The Trivikrama Temple -- The iconography of the Trivikrama image -- The pious works of Atibhāvatī -- Conclusion -- 18 A Note on Skandagupta's Bhitarī Stone Pillar: Inscription, verses 8-12 Commemorating the dead -- Ajay Mitra Shastri -- Skandagupta's Bhitarī Inscription vv. 8-12 -- Concluding remarks on the inscription and the site of Bhitarī -- Appendix -- Skandagupta's Bhitarī Stone Pillar Inscription vv. 8-12 -- 19 The So-called: 'Jaunpur Stone Inscription of Īśvaravarman' -- Preamble -- Introduction -- The Jaunpur Stone Inscription -- Text -- Translation and annotation -- Conclusion -- 20 The Temple of Maṇḍaleśvarasvāmin: The Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription of the time of Udayasena reconsidered -- Introduction -- The temple on Muṇḍeśvarī Hill -- The date of the Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription -- The Muṇḍeśvarī Inscription, Year 30 -- Transliteration -- Emended, orthographic edition -- Translation -- Interpretation -- Maṇḍaleśvara and the Skandapurāṇa -- 21 Monuments to the Dead in Ancient North India -- Preamble -- The funerary monument in Sanskrit literature -- The aiḍūka of the Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa -- The eḍūka -- The archaeology of the funerary monument -- Memorials -- Pratimāgṛhas -- Memorial Stones -- Aiḍūkas -- Ahichhatra -- Mansar -- Funerary monuments with mortuary deposits -- Sui Vihar -- The archaeology of the śmaśanā -- The Kumhāra Ṫekḍī in Ujjain -- The eḍūka at Mansar -- A funerary monument to Prabhāvatī Gupta? -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Aiḍūkarūpanirmāṇa Viṣṇudharmottara 3.84.1-15 (emended) -- 22 Puruṣamedha, Manasarapuruṣa, Vāstupuruṣa: The image of man in the sacrificial context -- The image of man -- Human sacrifice in India -- Installation of the house or Vāstupratiṣṭha -- Excursus upon the construction of the gnicayana altar -- Preliminary conclusion -- Archaeological evidence for the construction sacrifice -- Kauśāmbī -- Mansar.

The Vāstupuruṣa -- Kandhar -- Curdi -- Final remark -- 23 Rama Devotion in a Śaiva Holy Place: The case of Vārāṇasī -- Introduction -- Tulsīdās, Śiva, and the Name -- The Agastyasaṃhitā -- The Tradition of the saving mantra -- The Kāśīkhaṇḍa -- The Skandapurāṇa -- Textual criticism -- The saving mantra in the Skandapurāṇa -- Avimukta -- Conclusion -- 24 The Hindu Religion and War -- Preamble -- Aśoka and ancient warfare in India -- The Arthaśāstra -- The principle of ahiṃsā and the rules of war -- Ahiṃsā -- The Bhagavadgītā -- The rules of war -- The reports of Megasthenes and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa -- The idea of a 'just war' -- The battle and the sacrifice -- Hinduism and Islam -- The conquest of northern India -- The case of Vārāṇasī -- Epilogue -- Part III: Studies in Early Saivism -- 25 Sources for Reconstructing Ancient Forms of Śiva Worship -- Śiva Caturmukha -- The myth of Tilottamā -- Images of Śiva in his quadruple form -- Epigraphic sources attesting the worship of Śiva -- Early Sanskrit sources of liṅga worship -- The Pāśupatasūtra and its commentary -- The Mahābhārata -- The Rāmāyaṇa -- Concluding observations -- The evidence of the Skandapurāṇa -- Conclusions -- Textual sources -- 26 At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, imagery, and image in Vedic and Śaiva initiation -- Introduction -- The sitting position of teacher and pupil in the Vedic Upanayana ritual -- The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa -- The Gṛhyasūtras -- The sitting position of the preceptor and his audience -- The sitting position of guru and novice in arly Śaiva initiation ritual -- Initiation in the Pāśupata tradition -- The Dakṣiṇāmūrti -- The definition of god's figure of grace -- The Dakṣiṇāmūrti and iconography -- The development of a cult concept into an iconic image -- A Dakṣiṇāmūrti on a crossbar found in Nagarī -- Dakṣa's sacrifice and his instruction in the Pāśupata vrata.

27 Thanesar, the Pāśupata Order and the Skandapurāṇa: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa IX.