Navigation überspringen.
Startseite

Visualized Texts

Gengnagel, Jörg:
Visualized Texts : Sacred Spaces, Spatial Texts and the Religious Cartography of Banaras / Jörg Gengnagel. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2011. - 341 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. - (Ethno-Indology ; 7)
Hochschulschrift. Zugl.: Heidelberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2005
ISBN 978-3-447-05732-5
EUR 52,00
DDC: 294.53509542
-- Angekündigt für Dezember 2011 --

Beschreibung
The study of the history of South Asian cartography has long been interpreted based on Western cartographic traditions. Maps of the South Asian subcontinent were assumed to be produced by foreigners - not by South Asians themselves. Maps actually produced in South Asia were neglected as a category in their own right. The present study focuses on the religious cartography of Banaras. It deals with visualizations of the sacred topography of Banaras as represented by various kinds of "maps", including painted pictorial maps, printed pilgrimage maps and simple spatial charts. The introduction to the volume is followed by a study of the textual background of the studied cartographic material. It then presents a nineteenth century debate on the Pancakroshi procession as a case study on the interrelation of maps, texts and pilgrimage practice. The following section presents the first detailed study of four pilgrimage maps produced during the 18th and 19th century. The volume concludes with extensive indices that provide access to the numerous names of gods, places and temples contained in the studied maps, texts and processions. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. 7
Illustrations. 9
Abbreviations. 12
1. Introduction. 13
   1.1 Survey of the Collected Cartographic Material. 16
2. Kāśīkhaṇḍokta – Kāśī in Texts. 23
   2.1 Aspects of Purāṇa Studies. 26
   2.2 Spatial Texts on Banaras in Sanskrit Literature. 28
   2.3 Manuscripts on the Sacred Topography of Banaras. 43
   2.4 The Kāśīdarpaṇam, or the Interrelatedness of Text and Map. 50
3. Kāśīyātrā – Maps and Processions in Banaras. 55
   3.1 The Debate Concerning the Pañcakrośīyātrā. 55
4. Kāśīdarśana – Kāśī in Maps. 73
   4.1 The Stylised Map of Vārāṇasī. 73
   4.2 The Pictorial Map Pilgrims in Banaras. 106
   4.3 The Saptapurīyātrādiprakāśapatra Printed in 1873. 149
   4.4 The Mirror of Kāśī (Kāśīdarpaṇa) by Kailāsanātha Sukula. 162
5. Conclusion. 187
Plates. 195
APPENDICES
   1. List of Religious and Topographical Maps of Banaras. 219
   2. Processions According to Kedarnāth Vyās. 233
   3. General Index of Names Indicated on the Analyzed Historical Maps. 249
Bibliography. 321
Index. 335

Autor
JÖRG GENGNAGEL, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Südasien-Institut der Universität Heidelberg. Profilseite.

Quellen: Harrassowitz; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Buchhandel.de; Amazon (DE); Lehmanns Media