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 xiii
... lanes . In this book , I attempt to locate the temples and bathing ghāts of twentieth - century Banāras in a centuries - old sacred geography , cast symbolically as a mandala — a sacred circle of pilgrimage inscribing , in ...
... lanes . In this book , I attempt to locate the temples and bathing ghāts of twentieth - century Banāras in a centuries - old sacred geography , cast symbolically as a mandala — a sacred circle of pilgrimage inscribing , in ...
Page xiv
... lanes , many of them no wider than a footpath , are choked with scooter and bicycle traffic . Tackling an inadequate sewage and water system that still pours waste into a mile - long stretch of bathing ghats along the River Gangā is ...
... lanes , many of them no wider than a footpath , are choked with scooter and bicycle traffic . Tackling an inadequate sewage and water system that still pours waste into a mile - long stretch of bathing ghats along the River Gangā is ...
Page xvi
... lanes of the ancient city and in the fast - growing suburbs and new colonies that now engulf the villages and settlements once on its rural periphery . The worlds of laborers and artisans , Muslim weavers and Jain businessmen have their ...
... lanes of the ancient city and in the fast - growing suburbs and new colonies that now engulf the villages and settlements once on its rural periphery . The worlds of laborers and artisans , Muslim weavers and Jain businessmen have their ...
Page xxi
... lanes as well as I know those of Cambridge , and perhaps better , for the time I have spent mapping the city and search- ing for its hidden temples . And yet , while Banāras has become famil- iar , I remember vividly how foreign it once ...
... lanes as well as I know those of Cambridge , and perhaps better , for the time I have spent mapping the city and search- ing for its hidden temples . And yet , while Banāras has become famil- iar , I remember vividly how foreign it once ...
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... lanes and pilgrimage routes . The sacred geography of the city provides information the Sanskrit texts cannot provide . Some of the temples I sought out , which had clearly been important in the era of the Sanskrit literature , no ...
... lanes and pilgrimage routes . The sacred geography of the city provides information the Sanskrit texts cannot provide . Some of the temples I sought out , which had clearly been important in the era of the Sanskrit literature , no ...
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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