UID:
edocfu_9959242342302883
Format:
1 online resource (315 p.)
ISBN:
1-4438-6734-9
Content:
This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; MAP OF INDIA; HINDU TEMPLES CITED IN THIS STUDY; FOREWORD; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON AUTHORSHIP; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 - HINDUISM AND THE HINDU TEMPLE; CHAPTER 2 - THE PLEBEIAN TEMPLE; CHAPTER 3 - CODIFYING THE HINDU TEMPLE; CHAPTER 4 - CONCEPTION OF A HINDU TEMPLE; CHAPTER 5 - THE HINDU TEMPLE AS LANGUAGE AND STYLE; CHAPTER 6 - UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF A CANONIZED TEMPLE; CHAPTER 7 - SYSTEMS OF MEASURE, ORDER AND PROPORTION; CHAPTER 8 - BEYOND THE OBJECT; CHAPTER 9 - RITUAL; CHAPTER 10 - CIRCUITS, CARTOGRAPHIES, AND CONTRADICTIONS
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CHAPTER 11 - EVOLVING IDENTITIESEPILOGUE; ENDNOTES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; APPENDIX; PROPORTION STUDIES ON INDIAN PILLARS; INDIAN ARCHITECTURAL GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4438-4137-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-14493-1
Language:
English
