Puranas ---Collection of Essays on Hindu Temples (2025)

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Temples in the Purulia District of West Bengal.

Arabinda Singha Roy

Journal of the Asiatic Society, Pp 119-153, Vol. LXV, No 4, 2023

In this article an attempt has been made to analyse the temple styles of the district of Purulia. More or less all the surviving temples are documented and classified according to their distinct styles. It is seen that stone and brick temples are standing side by side within a complex. It is also noted that deul is built with brick and on the other hand chala is built by stones. Temples, are decorated in a simple way with terracotta plaques for brick temples and block of carving stones for the stone temples. Beside these temples a good number of iconographical figurines are also found in the temple premises and sometimes in the sanctum of the temple. A light is also thrown on the continuation of the building of temples since 9-10th century up to 18- 19th century.

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Readings on the Temple

Naman P Ahuja

Readings on the Temple_Marg vol. 73 nos.2&3, 2022

This book moves beyond the all too well known temples at Khajuraho, Tanjore and Konarak to look at temples in Kutch, Kashmir, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Kerala--each unique not just for its style, but also for the imperatives of patronage and diversity of public functions that their temples served. We examine rock-cut temples, extraordinary brick ones, circular yogini temples, wood or bamboo and complex multi-faceted towers. Bewildering though they may be in their architectural variety, this volume shifts our focus away from their variety, to look instead at who built temples and why? What were they used for? Given that many Hindus do not believe in image worship, what makes temples valid spaces for worship, and what legitimises their public role? What was the nature of the activities and communities they fostered and how temples also became the focus of urban centres. The approach is art historical, ethnographic and comparative. Temples, as this book shows, have adapted and changed over the centuries and served a variety of ritual functions. They have also been major centres of the arts: painting and sculpture, dance and drama. To celebrate 75 years of Marg, this bumper issue, brings together the writings of pioneering art historians who have deepened our understanding of this remarkable expression of Indian architecture. Excerpts frpom the introductions to its chapters by Naman Ahuja are available here.

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Rough Draft "Introduction," The Contemporary Hindu Temple

Annapurna Garimella

The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History, Edited by: Annapurna Garimella, Shriya Sridharan, A. Srivathsan, 2019

This book seeks to contribute to the study of contemporary temples by defining the term "contemporary" as a viewpoint to examine ancient as well as recently built temples and to tudy the Hindu temple from the perspective of formal and informal institutions and individuals. One question the contributors seek to address is the notion of sacrality and space-how is the experience of the divine made possible in the contemporary temple? This volume contributes to existing studies and attempts to demarcate fresh horizons for future studies.

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Templexity™ The Complexities of the Great Hindu temples

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The Puranas [Purāṇas] (Philology versus Symbology.) Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi. Collected by Robert Hutwohl

Robert Hutwohl

Lucifer, 1891

THE advent of Sanskrit on the field of European linguistic studies marks an era of great importance in the history of the world. Although the accounts I have been able to lay before you are few and necessarily very meagre, I hope nevertheless to have established that the Purānas, when read by the light of the Upanishads, become a clear commentary of the Vedas, which, in their turn, cease at once to be the first thoughts of an imaginary primitive humanity. Philology must give way to symbology in order that this result may be appreciated in its true light. It ought, in fact, to be the sole or at least principal instrument of ancient research. Symbology is the language of humanity, nay it is the language of nature. It is pre-eminently the universal language known to antiquity—the language whose alphabets are indelibly fixed on the tablet of the human mind, and whose eternal volume is the ever unalterable book of nature. Nothing but a clear, careful, and patient study of the alphabets of this language can lead us nearer that day in the history of the world, when all the different creeds will melt into one universal basis of belief and love.

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Some Distinguished Temples of Hinduism BOOK

Dr. Uday Dokras

Indo Nordic Author's Collective, 2021

Some Distinguished Temples of Hinduism --A BOOK CHAPTER I-Why were temples built? Why do we worship idols? The science of HINDU Temple Construction page 5 CHAPTER II-Medieval temple architecture: North Indian style page 23 CHAPTER III-1000 Petal Temple- Page 34 CHAPTER IV- A Shivling Established by Lord Kartikeya Himself tht emerges and submerges each day page 43 CHAPTER V-Ananthapura Lake Temple, Kerala - A beautiful lake temple with a crocodile guardian page 63 CHAPTER VI- Dashavatara दशावतार page 70 CHAPTER VII- Virat hridaya padma sthalam Chidambaram Sri Thillai Nataraja Temple page 144 CHAPTER VIII- CHIDAMBARAM TEMPLE TAMIL NADU,INDIA Interesting design Facts over and above those earlier written about page 218 CHAPTER IX- EMERGE SUBMERGE TEMPLE & GOD KARTIKEYAN-PART II page 238 About the Author page 261

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Temples in India: Origin and Developmental Stages

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ELEMENTS OF INDIAN TEMPLES Part 7

Dr. Uday Dokras

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Temple: Form and Function

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