Multifarious Sacred Geographies

Kanchipuram Through Its Sanskrit Sthalamāhātmyas

Malini Ambach (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIV, 288 Seiten

2026
Heidelberg University Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-96822-287-5 (ISBN)

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Multifarious Sacred Geographies takes an in-depth look at the sacred geography of the South Indian temple city Kanchipuram. Kanchipuram's particularly diverse religious landscape, with over four hundred temples, is attested to in numerous Sanskrit and Tamil texts that glorify the city. Malini Ambach investigates for the first time three of these glorifying Sanskrit Sthalamāhātmyas in detail and comparatively with regard to their literary geographies of Kanchipuram. These texts link mythology with the local physical landscape and each coloured by a sectarian perspective, they describe the same sacred space, Kanchipuram, by constructing shared and contradictory notions of the temple city.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Sacred Sites of South Asia Series ; 2
Zusatzinfo	Ill.
Verlagsort	Heidelberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Schlagworte	Kanchipuram • LIterary geography • Sacred geography • South India • Sthalamāhātmyas
ISBN-10	3-96822-287-3 / 3968222873
ISBN-13	978-3-96822-287-5 / 9783968222875
Zustand	Neuware