Temples of the Indus : studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan / by Michael W. Meister.

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Meister, Michael W.

Title & Author:

Temples of the Indus : studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan / by Michael W. Meister.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Description:

xv, 85 pages, 86 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Brill's Indological library ; v. 35

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Salt range and Indus temples -- Sites, history, and comparative chronology -- Archaeology at Kāfirkoṭ and problems of platform extensions -- Original variations in tenth-century architecture -- Archaeology and ethnography.

Summary:

In Pakistan's northwest, a sequence of temples built between the sixth and the tenth centuries provides a missing chapter in the evolution of the Hindu temple in South Asia. Combining some elements from Buddhist architecture in Gandhara with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nagara tower formulated in the early post-Gupta period, this group stands as an independent school of that pan-Indic form, offering new evidence for its creation and original variations in the four centuries of its existence. Drawing on recent archaeology undertaken by the Pakistan Heritage Society as well as scholarship from the Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition. --Book Jacket.

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ISBN:

9789004186170 (hc ; alk. paper)
9004186174
9789004190115 (electronic bk.)
9004190112

Subject:

Hindu architecture Pakistan Salt Range Region.
Hindu architecture Indus River Valley.
Hindu temples Pakistan Salt Range Region.
Hindu temples Indus River Valley.
Architecture hindoue Indus, Vallée de l'.
Temples hindous Indus, Vallée de l'.
Hindu architecture.
Hindu temples.
Architektur
Hinduismus
Tempel
Hindoeïsme.
Tempels.
Asia Indus River Valley.
Pakistan
Industal

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Brill's Indological library ; v. 35.

Studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan

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Location: Library main 271272
Call No.: BIB 204263
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