Temple Urbanism in Medieval South India
The Tamil country of South India experienced a flowering of political, economic, and cultural forces during the Chola period (849–1279). The environments supporting this expansion were nucleated settlements focused on temples, surrounded by verdant paddy fields with artificial irrigation networks. This article is a study of the sacred sites and nucleated settlements that were the heart of this medieval civilization. The purposes of the study are two: first, to portray the dynamics of early urbanism during a crucial period of regional integration in South Asia, and especially to portray the geography of early centers; second, to provide the basis for a comparative study of early South Indian urbanism and premodern urbanism in other world areas.
The Demon and the Deity: Conflict Syndrome in the Hayagriva Legend
the mythological sphere arise automatically and directly out of older elements through a process of homogenesis. This has been particularly the case with Puranic mythology which is often seen merely as an elaboration of what is available in the Vedic sources in a seed form. Learned disquisitions are written to prove that the worship of Puranic deities, such as Brahma, Siva Skanda, Ganesa, gakti, etc., is based on certain Vedic metaphysicalcosmological concepts which were recast in the form of Puranic legends. 1 However, the key to a myth often lies with archaeology, history and comparative religion as has been ably demonstrated in the case of the Greek myths ’ and this is equally true of Puranic legends, which are neither casual priestly elaborations of Vedic symbolism nor dreamlike ’reflections of the unconscious’ psyche. The fact that a myth has several versions or has gone through several alterations shows that its creative process was of some social importance; the shift is indicative of some change in the life of a tribe,
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