The body of God
an emperor's palace for Krishna in eighth-century Kanchipuram
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Author
Contributions
- Case, Margaret H. - Contributor
Publication
2008 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
165,000 words, Guess
Page Count
660 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebodygodemperorsp00huds_609
- Internet Archivebodygodemperorsp00huds
- ISBN-139780195369229
- ISBN-10019536922X
- Goodreads5438974
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008010338
- OCLC Control Number209814890
- Better World Books9780195369229
- Open LibraryOL16658849M
Classifications
- DDC294.5/35095482
- LCCBL1243.76.K3562 V355 2008
- LCCBL1243.76.K3562V355
Description
"The book is a finely detailed examination of a virtually unstudied Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 C.E.). Hudson offers a sustained reading of the temple as a coherent, organized, minutely conceptualized mandala. Its iconography and structure can be understood in the light of a ten-stanza poem by the Alvar poet Tirumangai, and of the Bhagavata Purana and other major religious texts, even as it in turn illuminates the meanings of those texts." "Hudson takes the reader step by step on a tour of the temple, telling the stories suggested by each of the 56 sculpted panels and showing how their relationship to one another brings out layers of meaning. He correlates the stories with stages in the spiritual growthof the king through the complex rituals that formed a crucial dimension of the religion. The result is a tapestry of interpretation that brings to life the richness of spiritual understanding embodied in the temple."--Jacket.
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