The Yuga Purāṇa
The Yuga Purāṇa

Author: John E. Mitchiner

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Verse work on predicting events in India, considered a source book for Indo-Greek history.

From the Banks of the Euphrates
From the Banks of the Euphrates

Author: Micah Ross

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1575061449

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Although Near Eastern languages and the history of the exact sciences are known for being obscure and deliberately arcane to general audiences, Alice Slotsky has paradoxically established her legacy by exposing these topics to a wider audience. As a visiting professor at Brown University, Slotsky has taught more students than any previous Assyriologist and successfully brought this discipline to a wider audience than previously imagined possible. This volume, with articles written by former students, as well as colleagues, pays tribute to her broad interests.

Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
Rediscovering the Hindu Temple

Author: Vinayak Bharne

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1443867349

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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...