India: A Sacred GeographyHarmony/Rodale, 27/03/2012 - 576 من الصفحات In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in the present—through the local, regional, and transregional practices of pilgrimage. India: A Sacred Geography tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the living landscape of this fascinating country –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the ground up, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, she acutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and shows how they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Ultimately, Eck shows us that from these networks of pilgrimage places, India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged. This is the astonishing and fascinating picture of a land linked for centuries not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps of pilgrims. India: A Sacred Geography offers a unique perspective on India, both as a complex religious culture and as a nation. Based on her extensive knowledge and her many decades of wide-ranging travel and research, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping grasp of history ensure that this work will be in demand for many years to come. |
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... River Gangā , skirt- ing the city , with its famous bathing ghats , is one of the “ seven Gangās ” of India , including the Narmada , Godāvarī , and Kāverī Rivers , each of which lays claim to the heavenly origin and gracious power of ...
... River Gangā , skirt- ing the city , with its famous bathing ghats , is one of the “ seven Gangās ” of India , including the Narmada , Godāvarī , and Kāverī Rivers , each of which lays claim to the heavenly origin and gracious power of ...
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... Rivers . Gomukh , the Cow's Mouth , as we shall see , is the name of the place high above Gangotri where the first ... rivers , the sys- tematizing of lingas of light , the proliferation of seats of the Goddess . I visited the ...
... Rivers . Gomukh , the Cow's Mouth , as we shall see , is the name of the place high above Gangotri where the first ... rivers , the sys- tematizing of lingas of light , the proliferation of seats of the Goddess . I visited the ...
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... rivers , mountains , and hillocks of India are linked to the myths of the gods and heroes . Wendy Doniger observes in her book Other Peoples ' Myths , “ A myth cannot function as a myth in isolation ; it shares its themes , its cast of ...
... rivers , mountains , and hillocks of India are linked to the myths of the gods and heroes . Wendy Doniger observes in her book Other Peoples ' Myths , “ A myth cannot function as a myth in isolation ; it shares its themes , its cast of ...
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... rivers , or it was retrieved from the sea by the gods , like the coastlands . Perhaps the divine erupted from the earth here , like the many jyotirlingas of Shiva . Or perhaps this divine image was once put down here and then clung ...
... rivers , or it was retrieved from the sea by the gods , like the coastlands . Perhaps the divine erupted from the earth here , like the many jyotirlingas of Shiva . Or perhaps this divine image was once put down here and then clung ...
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... river " of birth and death to the " far shore " of liberation . Tirthas are fords because they facilitate such crossings . The rivers , of course , are the great descenders . Many of India's rivers , the Ganga foremost among them , are ...
... river " of birth and death to the " far shore " of liberation . Tirthas are fords because they facilitate such crossings . The rivers , of course , are the great descenders . Many of India's rivers , the Ganga foremost among them , are ...
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INDIA IN THE LOTUS OF THE WORLD | 107 |
THE GANGA AND THE RIVERS OF INDIA | 131 |
SHIVAS LIGHT IN THE LAND OF INDIA | 189 |
SHAKTI THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BODY OF THE GODDESS | 257 |
VISHNU ENDLESS AND DESCENDING | 301 |
THE LAND AND STORY OF KRISHNA | 347 |
THE RAMAYANA ON THE LANDSCAPE OF INDIA | 399 |
CHAPTER IO A PILGRIMS INDIA TODAY | 441 |
Acknowledgments | 457 |
Glossary | 461 |
Bibliography | 475 |
Notes | 493 |
Index | 541 |
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ancient ascetic avatara Ayodhya Badrinath Banaras bathing Bhagavata Purana Bharata Brahma Braj called century culture darshan deity Delhi Devi devotion dhām dhams dharma divine Dvārakā earth epic famous forest Ganga Ghats Godavari goddess gods Govardhan Hanuman heaven hill Himalayas Hindu holy hymn Ibid island Jagannatha journey jyotirlinga Kashi Kāverī Kedarnath king Krishna Lakshmana land landscape legend linga of light linked living Lord Shiva lotus Mahabharata Mahākāla Maharashtra māhātmya Märkandeya Mathura Mela Meru Mother mountain Muslim myth Narasimha Nārāyana Narmada north India Omkareshvara Pandavas pilgrimage pilgrims pithas Pradesh praise Prayaga Rāma Rama's Rāmāyana Rameshvara Rāvana regional religious rites ritual rivers sacred geography sacrifice sage sanctum Sanskrit Sarasvati seven Shakti Shri shrine Shrirangam Simhachalam Sītā Siva Skanda Purana Somnath stone story symbolic Tamil Nadu temple tirthas Tirupati tradition Ujjain Vaishnava Vārānasī Veda Vedic village Vishnu waters whole worship Yamuna