Carving devotion in the Jain caves at Ellora [electronic resource] / by Lisa N. Owen
- Author
- Owen, Lisa N.
- Published
- Leiden : Brill, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (303 pages).
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- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 0.Introduction: Carving Ellora -- 0.1.Ellora's Jain Caves: A New Perspective -- 0.2.Ellora's Jain Caves in Context -- 0.3.Organization of the Book -- 1.Carving the Samavasarana -- 1.1.The Assembly of Worshippers at Ellora -- 1.2.Further Evidence from Ellora's Antechambers -- 1.3.Ellora as the Samavasarana -- 1.4.Samavasaranas on Earth -- 2.Carving the Liberated -- 2.1.Ellora's Main Shrine Jinas -- 2.2.The Astamahapratiharya -- 2.2.1.Elements Supporting the Jina -- 2.2.2.Elements Crowning the Jina -- 2.2.3.Elements Attending the Jina -- 2.3.More than Ornamentation -- 3.Carving the Divine -- 3.1.Images of the Jain Yaksa and Yaksi at Ellora -- 3.2.Jain Deities in a Broader Context at Ellora -- 3.3.The Yaksa/Yaksi Pair as Sasanadevatas -- 3.4.Cakresvari, Padmavati, and other Goddesses -- 3.5.Wealth, Fecundity, and Protection at Ellora -- 4.Carving Ellora's Jain Patrons -- 4.1.The Rastrakutas: A Question of Patronage -- 4.2.At the Feet of a Jina -- 4.3.Devoted Patrons in Ellora's Jain Caves -- 4.4.Brahmacarins and their Presentations as Donors -- 4.5.Portraits of Aryikas at Ellora -- 4.6.A New Look at Patronage at Ellora -- 5.Carving Sacred Space -- 5.1.Creating a Celestial Environment -- 5.2.Reconstructing Medieval Lay Puja -- 5.2.1.Acts of Puja -- 5.2.2.Lustrating the Jina at Ellora -- 6.Carving a Larger Jain World -- 6.1.Ellora's Last Phase of Activity -- 6.2.Contemporary Devotion at Ellora.
- Summary
- Drawing on art historical, epigraphical, and textual evidence, this book is the first full-scale reconstruction of medieval Jain activities at Ellora. It not only highlights the understudied Jain caves, but examines them in concert with Ellora's Hindu and Buddhist monuments.
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- ISBN
- 9789004206304 (electronic book)
9789004206304 (electronic bk.)
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