Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory

Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-29183-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

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How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoker, Valerie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration and Translation

1. Hindu Sectarianism and the City of Victory
2. Royal and Religious Authority in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara: A Ma?hadhipati at K?s?n?adevaraya’s Court
3. Sectarian Rivalries at an Ecumenical Court: Vyasatirtha, Advaita Vedanta, and the Smarta Brahmins
4. Allies or Rivals? Vyasatirtha’s Material, Social, and Ritual Interactions with the S´ri¯vais?n?avas
5. The Social Life of Vedanta Philosophy: Vyasatirtha’s Polemics against Visi??advaita Vedanta
6. Hindu, Ecumenical, Sectarian: Religion and the Vijayanagara Court

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Valerie Stoker is Associate Professor of South Asian Religions and Director of the Master of Humanities Program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.