Banaras, City of LightColumbia University Press, 1999 - 427 pages "In BANARAS, Diana Eck . . . has written a notable book about this greatest of Indian pilgrimage sites. . . . Her brilliant, comprehensive book seems likely to remain for a long time the definitive work on this great Indian city".--WASHINGTON POST. 61 photos. 7 maps. |
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Diana L. Eck. CITY OF LIGHT Diana L. Eck BANARAS : CITY OF LIGHT DIANA L. ECK BANARAS CITY. BANARAS Front Cover.
Diana L. Eck. CITY OF LIGHT Diana L. Eck BANARAS : CITY OF LIGHT DIANA L. ECK BANARAS CITY. BANARAS Front Cover.
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... Banāras in a centuries - old sacred geography , cast symbolically as a mandala — a sacred circle of pilgrimage inscribing , in representative form , the entire world , both spatially and temporally . Today Hindu pilgrims from all over ...
... Banāras in a centuries - old sacred geography , cast symbolically as a mandala — a sacred circle of pilgrimage inscribing , in representative form , the entire world , both spatially and temporally . Today Hindu pilgrims from all over ...
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... Banāras in full measure . The infrastruc- ture of an eighth- , tenth- , and fifteenth - century city groans today un- der the demands and uses of its late twentieth - century inhabitants . Its narrow stone lanes , many of them no wider ...
... Banāras in full measure . The infrastruc- ture of an eighth- , tenth- , and fifteenth - century city groans today un- der the demands and uses of its late twentieth - century inhabitants . Its narrow stone lanes , many of them no wider ...
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... Banāras . Conversely , Banāras has its own Ayodhyā , a spiritual duplicate of Rama's Ayodhya transposed here for the benefit of those who love Lord Rama . And here in Banāras the religious sig- nificance of the Kāshī Vishvanātha linga ...
... Banāras . Conversely , Banāras has its own Ayodhyā , a spiritual duplicate of Rama's Ayodhya transposed here for the benefit of those who love Lord Rama . And here in Banāras the religious sig- nificance of the Kāshī Vishvanātha linga ...
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Diana L. Eck. the city of Banāras — a range of new scholarship in which Banaras : City of Light now takes a modest place . This book presents a portrait of a great city that has come to hold symbolic significance for the whole of India ...
Diana L. Eck. the city of Banāras — a range of new scholarship in which Banaras : City of Light now takes a modest place . This book presents a portrait of a great city that has come to hold symbolic significance for the whole of India ...
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Adi Keshava ancient Annapūrnā ascetic auspicious Avimukta Avimukteshvara Banaras bathing Bhairava Bindu Bindu Madhava Brahma brahmin Buddha Buddhist called century B.C. city's cremation ground Dandapani darshana Dashashvamedha death deities Devi dharma divine Divodāsa Durgā earth famous festival Forest of Bliss ganas Ganesha Gangā Gauri Ghat goddess gods Gupta heaven Himalayas Hindu holy honored Jātaka Kāla Kāla Bhairava Kāma Kashi Kāshi Khanda Kedāra Khanda King Krishna Kund lanes liberation linga of light live located Lolārka Lord Shiva Mahābhārata māhātmyas Manikarnikā Matsya Matsyodari moksha mosque Muslim myth nāgas Nārāyana Nikumbha North India Omkara Panchaganga Panchakroshi Road Pārvatī pilgrimage pilgrims Prayaga Purāna Rāma Rāmāyana religious rites ritual riverfront sacred city sage Sankatā sannyasins Sanskrit season Shakti Shiva linga shrine sins Skanda story symbol tīrthas tradition Trilochana Tulsi Vāpī Varana Vārānasī Vedas Vinayaka Vishnu Vishvanatha Temple Vishveshvara waters waxing fortnight worship yakshas