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

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 epigra...

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

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