Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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Page 106
... institution in this part of India . There is only one Shri- Vaishnava institution of older date in Ayodhya , dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century : a small family in Yajnavedi , who are Telugu immigrants of an endogamous ...
... institution in this part of India . There is only one Shri- Vaishnava institution of older date in Ayodhya , dating from the beginning of the nineteenth century : a small family in Yajnavedi , who are Telugu immigrants of an endogamous ...
Page 146
... institution of the naga section of the Shivaite Dashanami order in Ayodhya in Siddhigiri's mathiya ( monastery ) . According to the present abbot of this institution , which belongs to the Juna akhara of the Dashanami nagas , the ...
... institution of the naga section of the Shivaite Dashanami order in Ayodhya in Siddhigiri's mathiya ( monastery ) . According to the present abbot of this institution , which belongs to the Juna akhara of the Dashanami nagas , the ...
Page 147
... institution which was constantly harassed by the Dashanamis . Nowadays this institution is regarded as a Ramanuji or Shri - Vaishnava institution , related to the Vatakalai subsection . As we have already seen in an earlier section ...
... institution which was constantly harassed by the Dashanamis . Nowadays this institution is regarded as a Ramanuji or Shri - Vaishnava institution , related to the Vatakalai subsection . As we have already seen in an earlier section ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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