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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Page xv
... whole area circled by the Panchakroshī . In other words , Kāshī's jyotirlinga is not some par- ticular temple , but the place itself . And the power of Shiva's presence here is duplicated too — in twelve jyotirlingas spread through the ...
... whole area circled by the Panchakroshī . In other words , Kāshī's jyotirlinga is not some par- ticular temple , but the place itself . And the power of Shiva's presence here is duplicated too — in twelve jyotirlingas spread through the ...
Page xvi
... whole of India , with all the multivocality that any symbol conveys . But the last twenty years have been immensely fruitful , filling in an even richer portrait of the city , providing alternative locations from which to view its ...
... whole of India , with all the multivocality that any symbol conveys . But the last twenty years have been immensely fruitful , filling in an even richer portrait of the city , providing alternative locations from which to view its ...
Page xvii
... whole process of death rites in the city where death is said to bring ultimate spiritual freedom . Christopher Justice has also taken on the matter of death in Dying the Good Death : The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City ( 1997 ) ...
... whole process of death rites in the city where death is said to bring ultimate spiritual freedom . Christopher Justice has also taken on the matter of death in Dying the Good Death : The Pilgrimage to Die in India's Holy City ( 1997 ) ...
Page xxiii
... 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 , somewhere . The geographical text of the city is ...
... 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 , somewhere . The geographical text of the city is ...
Page xxiv
... Banaras every day for a whole year , still she did not reach all the sacred places . For in Banaras there is a sacred place at every step . " BANARAS February 1981 BANARAS : CITY OF LIGHT Bakaria Kund Nag Kuan Ishvariganga xxiv Preface.
... Banaras every day for a whole year , still she did not reach all the sacred places . For in Banaras there is a sacred place at every step . " BANARAS February 1981 BANARAS : CITY OF LIGHT Bakaria Kund Nag Kuan Ishvariganga xxiv Preface.
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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