LEADER 04369oam 22008414a 450 001 996328039403316 005 20221206104518.0 010 $a0-520-96546-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520965461 035 $a(CKB)3880000000044148 035 $a(OCoLC)959728089 035 $a(DE-B1597)539734 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520965461 035 $a(OCoLC)1088319885 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72993 035 $a(ScCtBLL)36cc2bfd-38ad-47ee-a7d0-c9ccda57e471 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000044148 100 $a20160714h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#nnn||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolemics and Patronage in the City of Victory$eVyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court /$fValerie Stoker 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aSouth Asia across the disciplines 311 08$aPrint version: 0520291832 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNote on Transliteration and Translation -- $t1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory -- $t2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Ma?h?dhipati at K???adevar?ya's Court -- $t3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vy?sat?rtha, Advaita Ved?nta, and the Sm?rta Brahmins -- $t4. Allies or Rivals? Vy?sat?rtha's Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the ?r?vai??avas -- $t5. The Social Life of Ved?nta Philosophy: Vy?sat?rtha's Polemics against Vi?i???dvaita Ved?nta -- $t6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $a"How did the patronage activities of the Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346-1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Contrary to most portraits of the empire as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, in Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. But the motivations behind this selectivity were not always religious. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vya?sati?rtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vya?sati?rtha played an important role in expanding the empire's economic and social networks. By examining Vya?sati?rtha's polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and socio-political reality under Vijayanagara rule"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aSouth Asia across the disciplines. 606 $aHinduism and state$zIndia$zVijayanagar (Empire)$xHistory$y16th century 607 $aVijayanagar (Empire)$xReligion$y16th century 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $a16th century. 610 $aacademic. 610 $aally. 610 $aancient city. 610 $acity of victory. 610 $aempire. 610 $agovernment. 610 $ahindu. 610 $ahistorical. 610 $aindia. 610 $aindian government. 610 $aindian history. 610 $aindian politics. 610 $akrishna river. 610 $amilitary. 610 $apolemics. 610 $apolitical. 610 $areligion. 610 $arival. 610 $arulers. 610 $ascholarly. 610 $asectarian. 610 $asocial life. 610 $asouth india. 610 $atranslation. 610 $aurban. 610 $avijayanagara empire. 610 $aworld history. 615 0$aHinduism and state$xHistory 676 $a294.50954/809031 700 $aStoker$b Valerie$f1969-$01025787 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996328039403316 996 $aPolemics and Patronage in the City of Victory$92439555 997 $aUNISA