Temples of the Indus [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan / / by Michael W. Meister

• Autore: Meister Michael W
• Pubblicazione: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 726/.1450934
• Soggetto topico: Hindu architecture - Pakistan - Salt Range Region; Hindu architecture - Indus River Valley; Hindu temples - Pakistan - Salt Range Region; Hindu temples - Indus River Valley
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Salt range and Indus temples -- Sites, history, and comparative chronology -- Archaeology at Kāfirkoṭ and problems of platform extensions -- Original variations in tenth-century architecture -- Archaeology and ethnography.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Gandharā with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nāgara 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 Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition.
• Altri titoli varianti: Studies in the Hindu architecture of ancient Pakistan
• Titolo autorizzato: Temples of the Indus
• ISBN: 1-282-95289-7; 9786612952890; 90-04-19011-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458897703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Brill's Indological library ; ; v. 35.