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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... century 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 ...
... century 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 ...
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... 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 than a footpath , are choked with scooter and bicycle traffic . Tackling an inadequate ...
... 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 than a footpath , are choked with scooter and bicycle traffic . Tackling an inadequate ...
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... centuries , and in the eighteenth century whole new sectors of what is now the dense urban heart of the city were constructed . And yet with all this change , most of the temples of the great Sanskrit tradition are still here ...
... centuries , and in the eighteenth century whole new sectors of what is now the dense urban heart of the city were constructed . And yet with all this change , most of the temples of the great Sanskrit tradition are still here ...
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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