Ancient Temples and Modern Dacoits Part III - The Architectural Workshop of the Gurjara-Pratiharas
The Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty as the defining force in north Indian temple architecture — the temple clusters of Morena and Naresar as laboratories where the distinctive regional style was forged.
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Dharmic Circuits - Sacred Pathways - Part 1
The Hindu geography of Bharatvarsha as a structured sacred space — how teertha yatra creates a living network of centers and pathways that defines the cultural boundaries of the civilization.
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Dharmic Circuits - The Temple, The Grove and The Lake - Part 3
Sringeri as the model of a complete sacred ecology — where the temple, the forest, the river, and the Vedic institution are not separate entities but one inseparable living system.
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Hindu Models of Temple Management
How did the traditional Hindu temple function as a self-governing civilizational institution — and what would it take to recover that from state-imposed bureaucratic management? Research building the case for culture-sensitive temple governance by documenting indigenous models of administration.
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The antiquity of the Hindu temple examined through textual, sculptural, and archaeological evidence — dismantling the Western academic claim that temple architecture was a Buddhist invention absorbed by Hinduism.
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The origin story of Anveshi, Bodha's structured temple-visit practice: how collective temple-going became a form of civilizational reconnection — and what it reveals about how living tradition actually perpetuates itself.
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The Many Meanings of the Hindu Temple
The Hindu temple as simultaneously sacred mountain, cosmic axis, human body, and gateway between worlds — a layered symbolic reading of the temple form as encoded theological knowledge made visible in stone.
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Dr. R. Nagaswamy on the essential nature of the Hindu temple — what it actually is, why its origins predate Buddhism, and how the Western academic genealogy that credits Buddhism with inventing the temple form gets the history exactly backward.
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A Karnataka polymath whose encyclopedic work on Hindu iconography and temple architecture reveals the metaphysical logic embedded in every sculptural form and spatial arrangement — the temple not as monument but as cosmological diagram made stone.
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Portrait of the head priest of the Hoysala-era Veera Narayana Temple at Belavadi — how a 12th-century heritage temple survives and what the priest's life reveals about the community of practice that keeps the living tradition alive.
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What do three hundred surviving ancient temple sites of Madhya Pradesh reveal about the full range of Hindu sacred architecture — and what was lost to medieval destruction? A deep architectural and sculptural study of ten major temple clusters, making the grammar of Hindu temple-building legible.
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Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.
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Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.
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Edition or translation of the Matsya Purana, the flood myth together with temple, iconographic, genealogical, and pilgrimage material.
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Edition or translation of the Skanda Purana, a vast pilgrimage-oriented Purana organized around sacred geography and regional mahatmyas.
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Edition or translation of the Agni Purana, an encyclopedic Purana covering cosmology, ritual, iconography, kingship, and sacred practice.
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