Rediscovering the Hindu Temple : The Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India
ISBN: 9781443867344
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Architecture;

This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...


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