Benares : the sacred landscape of Varanasi
Gutschow, Niels
Benares : the sacred landscape of Varanasi - United Kingdom Axel Menges;London 2006 - 498p.
7Foreword 14Introduction PART 1 - Picture Maps 41 introduction 42 The Victoria & Albert Museum picture map 45 The Delhi Museum piclurc map 50 Saptapunyatmdiprakasapatram 55 The Kdsidarpana - Mirror ofKdsiof Kailasanatha Sukula, 1876 74 The KatiTdarpanapurti of Krsnacandra Sarma, 1877 81 The KasT Citra - the Image of KasT of SrT G. Vandopadhyaya in 1940 91 Sn KasT PancakrosT Tirthasarsana, 1970 101 Pancakrosika Mdnacitra, by Sivananda SarasvatT, 1991 105 The Map of'Kashi, c. 1975 109 Bhdrata Mdtd - maps of India as objects of worship PART II-Built Maps 113PancakrosT Mandir 180Krsna Degah - a temple in Patan, Nepal 187Temple compounds as miniature sacred landscape PART TIT: Sacred Territories - Pilgrimages 207Pancakroslyatra 265 Avimukta - Muktiksetra 283Antargrhayatra PART IV - The Grammar of Sanctification 340Duplication and multiplication - the grammar of creating a sacred landscape 367Gracing and protecting territories - groups of temples and places PART V - Panoramas 409Introduction 422A Complete View of the Benares City, dated c. 1911 431 The Map of Kashi - AsalT Bada Naksa KdsTKa, printed c. 1975 432Panorama photograph by Stanislaw Klimek, 21 November 2000 PART VI - Topographical Maps 460The myth of objective geographical representation - the emergence of modern mapping in India 463Topographical maps of VaranasT 478 Epilogue 483 Footnotes 487 Index 496 Bibliography
393668104X
720.9542 / GUT
Benares : the sacred landscape of Varanasi - United Kingdom Axel Menges;London 2006 - 498p.
7Foreword 14Introduction PART 1 - Picture Maps 41 introduction 42 The Victoria & Albert Museum picture map 45 The Delhi Museum piclurc map 50 Saptapunyatmdiprakasapatram 55 The Kdsidarpana - Mirror ofKdsiof Kailasanatha Sukula, 1876 74 The KatiTdarpanapurti of Krsnacandra Sarma, 1877 81 The KasT Citra - the Image of KasT of SrT G. Vandopadhyaya in 1940 91 Sn KasT PancakrosT Tirthasarsana, 1970 101 Pancakrosika Mdnacitra, by Sivananda SarasvatT, 1991 105 The Map of'Kashi, c. 1975 109 Bhdrata Mdtd - maps of India as objects of worship PART II-Built Maps 113PancakrosT Mandir 180Krsna Degah - a temple in Patan, Nepal 187Temple compounds as miniature sacred landscape PART TIT: Sacred Territories - Pilgrimages 207Pancakroslyatra 265 Avimukta - Muktiksetra 283Antargrhayatra PART IV - The Grammar of Sanctification 340Duplication and multiplication - the grammar of creating a sacred landscape 367Gracing and protecting territories - groups of temples and places PART V - Panoramas 409Introduction 422A Complete View of the Benares City, dated c. 1911 431 The Map of Kashi - AsalT Bada Naksa KdsTKa, printed c. 1975 432Panorama photograph by Stanislaw Klimek, 21 November 2000 PART VI - Topographical Maps 460The myth of objective geographical representation - the emergence of modern mapping in India 463Topographical maps of VaranasT 478 Epilogue 483 Footnotes 487 Index 496 Bibliography
393668104X
720.9542 / GUT