Temples of the Indus

by Meister, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9789004186170
• ISBN10: 9004186174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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 Gandhara with the symbolically powerful curvilinear Nagara 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 Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michael W. Meister, Ph.D. (1974) in Fine Arts, is W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He has been general editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture (Delhi: 198-92), Discourses on Siva (Philadelphia: 1984), and co-author of Desert Temples (Jaipur: 2008).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. ix
Salt Range and Indus Temples	p. 1
Sites, History, and Comparative Chronology ...	p. 11
Archaeology at Kafirkot and Problems of Platform Extensions	p. 39
Original Variations in Tenth-Century Architecture	p. 51
Archaeology and Ethnography	p. 63
Bibliography	p. 73
Glossary of Architectural Terms	p. 79
Index	p. 83
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