Mapping the Pāśupata landscape : narrative, place, and the Śaiva imaginary in early medieval North India
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Mapping the Pāśupata landscape : narrative, place, and the Śaiva imaginary in early medieval North India
（Gonda Indological studies, v. 21）
Brill, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In Mapping the Pasupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Saiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Siva devotees called the Pasupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurana into conversation with physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons in order to examine the ways in which Pasupatas were emplaced in regional landscapes and to emphasize the use of material culture as media through which notions of belonging and identity were expressed. By exploring the ties between the formation of early Pasupata communities and the locales in which they were embedded, this study reflects critically upon the ways in which community building was coincident with place-making in Early Medieval India.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Mapping a Religious Landscape
1 A Geographic Imaginary: the Skandapurana, Lakulisa and the Localization of Tradition
2 At the Crossroads: Saiva Religious Networks in Uparamala
3 The Salt Lakes: Pasupatas and Saiva Centers in Jambumarga
4 The Sahya Mountain: Siva Religion in the Port Polity of the North Konkan
5 Seeking the 'Lord with a Club': Encountering Lakulisa in the Pasupata Landscape
Coda: Temple, Community, and Heritage-Making
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Index
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