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The body of God :

0199709025

9780199709021

019536922X

9780195369229

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The body of God :

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an emperor's palace for Krishna in eighth-century Kanchipuram /

D. Dennis Hudson ; edited by Margaret H. Case.

New York :

Oxford Univ. Press,

©2008.

1 online resource (xxiii, 660 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-640) and index.

Introduction. The Discovery -- pt. I. The Approach to the Vishnu-house -- 1. The Significance of the Temple -- 2. Six Concepts -- 3. The Poem -- 4. The Emperor's Career Portrayed on the Prakara Wall -- pt. II. The Secret Dimension of the Vishnu-house -- 5. The Temple Mandala and the Bottom-floor Sanctum -- 6. The Middle-floor Sanctum: The Sculpted Program of the Northern Path -- 7. Northern Panels of the Northern Path: Transforming Power -- 8. Northern Panels of the Northern Path: Fortifying Omniscience -- 9. The Middle-Floor Sanctum: The Sculpted Program of the Southern Path -- 10. The Southern Panels of the Southern Path: "The Path of the Southern Doctrine" -- pt. III. The Public Dimension of the Vishnu-house -- Introduction. Spacetime and Its Display -- 11. The Vimana Panels on the Western Side -- 12. The Panels on the Ardhamandapa or Porch -- 13. The Vimana Panels on the Northern Side -- 14. The Vimana Panels on the Eastern Side.

15. The Vimana Panels on the Southern Side -- App. 1. Who Are the Bhagavatas? -- App. 2. Vasudeva's Path in the Satvata-samhita -- App. 3. Prithu, the People's Indra -- App. 4. Mantras in the Jayakhya-samhita -- App. 5. Periya Tirumoli 2.9.

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Although Hudson died without completing 'The Body of God', the work has been edited and brought to fruition by Margaret Case. The book is a detailed study of a renowned Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 CE). Hudson uses this temple as an illustration of a major current and historical stage in South Indian Vaisnava religion.

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Body of God.

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Krishna-- Cult.

Nandivarman, II,active 732-796-- Religion.

Krishna

Nandivarman, II,active 732-796.

Vaikuntha Perumal (Kānchipuram, India)

Vaikuntha Perumal (Kānchipuram, India)

Vaishnavism-- India-- Kānchipuram Region-- History.

Cults.

RELIGION-- Hinduism-- General.

Religion.

Vaishnavism.

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Hudson, D. Dennis.

Case, Margaret H.

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