Temples of the Indus : studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan / / by Michael W. Meister.

• Superior document: Brill's Indological library ; v. 35
• Author: Meister, Michael W.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological library ; v. 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Pakistan's northwest, a sequence of temples built between the sixth and the tenth centuries provides a missing chapter in the evolution of the Hindu temple in South Asia. Combining some elements from Buddhist architecture in Gandharā with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nāgara tower formulated in the early post-Gupta period, this group stands as an independent school of that pan-Indic form, offering new evidence for its creation and original variations in the four centuries of its existence. Drawing on recent archaeology undertaken by the Pakistan Heritage Society as well as scholarship from the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition.

Table of Contents

Salt range and Indus temples -- Sites, history, and comparative chronology -- Archaeology at Kāfirkoṭ and problems of platform extensions -- Original variations in tenth-century architecture -- Archaeology and ethnography.