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Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan

Author :  Michael W. Meister

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Country
India
Publisher
Dev Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi
ISBN 9789394852471
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2023
Bib. Info xv, 85p.; ills. 23 cm. Bibliography Includes Index.
Categories Religion - Hinduism
Product Weight 650 gms.
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In Pakistan's northwest, a sequence of temples built between the sixth and the tenth centuries provides a missing chapter in the evolution of the Hindu temple in South Asia. Combining some elements from Buddhist architecture in Gandhara with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nagara tower formulated in the early post-Gupta period, this group stands as an independent school of that pan-Indic form, offering new evidence for its creation and original variations in the four centuries of its existence. Drawing on recent archaeology undertaken by the Pakistan Heritage Society as well as scholarship from the Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition.

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