04369oam 22008414a 450 99632803940331620221206104518.00-520-96546-910.1525/9780520965461(CKB)3880000000044148(OCoLC)959728089(DE-B1597)539734(DE-B1597)9780520965461(OCoLC)1088319885(MdBmJHUP)muse72993(ScCtBLL)36cc2bfd-38ad-47ee-a7d0-c9ccda57e471(EXLCZ)99388000000004414820160714h20162016 uy 0engurmn#nnn|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolemics and Patronage in the City of VictoryVyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court /Valerie StokerBerkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) illustrations, mapsSouth Asia across the disciplinesPrint version: 0520291832 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- 1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory -- 2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Maṭhādhipati at Kṛṣṇadevarāya's Court -- 3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vyāsatīrtha, Advaita Vedānta, and the Smārta Brahmins -- 4. Allies or Rivals? Vyāsatīrtha's Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the Śrīvaiṣṇavas -- 5. The Social Life of Vedānta Philosophy: Vyāsatīrtha's Polemics against Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta -- 6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index"How did the patronage activities of the Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Contrary to most portraits of the empire as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, in Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. But the motivations behind this selectivity were not always religious. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyāsatīrtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyāsatīrtha played an important role in expanding the empire's economic and social networks. By examining Vyāsatīrtha's polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and socio-political reality under Vijayanagara rule"--Provided by publisher.South Asia across the disciplines.Hinduism and stateIndiaVijayanagar (Empire)History16th centuryVijayanagar (Empire)Religion16th centuryElectronic books. 16th century.academic.ally.ancient city.city of victory.empire.government.hindu.historical.india.indian government.indian history.indian politics.krishna river.military.polemics.political.religion.rival.rulers.scholarly.sectarian.social life.south india.translation.urban.vijayanagara empire.world history.Hinduism and stateHistory294.50954/809031Stoker Valerie1969-1025787MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996328039403316Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory2439555UNISA