Mountain temples & temple mountains: architecture, religion, and nature in the central Himalayas,

Chanchani, Nachiket

Edited/Translated by: Series Editors: Padma Kaimal et al.

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region recoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage. This book explores scores of stone edifices and steles that we...

Series: Global South Asia

Publisher: University of Washington Press

USD 113.00

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