Valérie Gillet

Minor Majesties (eBook, ePUB)

The Paluvettaraiyars and Their South Indian Kingdom of Paluvur, 9th-11th centuries A.D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluvur, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively surveys four temples dedicated to the god Siva that were built during this period, combining in-depth analyses of their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. Through these, Gillet provides a better understanding of the complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning as well as how these religious monuments became a place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197757734
• Artikelnr.: 72269117

Autorenporträt

Valérie Gillet is a specialist on South India. In 2007, she joined the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO); she was posted in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO between 2007 and 2016, and has been based in Paris since 2017. Gillet works primarily with material culture and Tamil epigraphy of the first millennium found on the territories of Paṇ?ya and Pallava dynasties, covering almost the entire Tamil-speaking South.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Note on the Transliteration of Tamil Words
* Abbreviations
* Maps, Plans, and Figures
* Introduction
* CHAPTER 1: A Tentative Biography of the Paluvettaraiyars
* CHAPTER 2. The Avanikantarpa / Avanigandharva Isvaragrham Mahadeva
Temple Complex (AIM) of Avanikantarpapuram / Avanigandharvapuram
* CHAPTER 3. The Pakaivitai Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple (PIM) and the
Tiruttorramutaiyar of Mannupperumpaluvur
* CHAPTER 4. The Tiruvalanturai Mahadeva Temple of Cirupaluvur
* CHAPTER 5. The Maravanisvaragrhattu Mahadeva of Cirupaluvur
* CONCLUSION. The Configuration of Social and Political Powers of
Paluvur Through Its Religious Centres
* Appendix 1. The Epigraphical Corpus of Paluvur
* Appendix 2. The Paluvettaraiyars in Inscriptions Outside Paluvur
* Appendix 3. Hymn 2.34 of the Tevaram by Campantar, Dedicated to
Paluvur
* Appendix 4. Photographs of Paluvur
* Bibliography
* Index