Rediscovering the Hindu Temple

Rediscovering the Hindu Temple

The Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India

by Vinayak Bharne, Krupali Krusche

320 pages· 2014· ISBN 9781443867344
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This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...

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