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Author(s): D Dennis Hudson
ISBN(s): 9780195369229, 019536922X
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Year: 2008
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ISBN 10: 019536922X 
ISBN 13: 9780195369229
Author: D Dennis Hudson

This book is the crowning achievement of the remarkable scholar D. Dennis Hudson, bringing together the results of a lifetime of interdisciplinary study of south Indian Hinduism. The book is a finely detailed examination of a virtually unstudied Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 C.E.). Hudson offers a sustained reading of the temple as a coherent, organized, minutely conceptualized mandala. Its iconography and structure can be understood in the light of a ten-stanza poem by the Alvar poet Tirumangai, and of the Bhagavata Purana and other major religious texts, even as it in turn illuminates the meanings of those texts. Hudson takes the reader step by step on a tour of the temple, telling the stories suggested by each of the 56 sculpted panels and showing how their relationship to one another brings out layers of meaning. He correlates the stories with stages in the spiritual growth of the king through the complex rituals that formed a crucial dimension of the religion. The result is a tapestry of interpretation that brings to life the richness of spiritual understanding embodied in the temple. Hudson’s underlying assumption is that the temple itself constitutes a summa theologica for the Pancharatra doctrines in the Bhagavata tradition centered on Krishna as it had developed through the eighth century. This tradition was already ancient and had spread widely across South Asia and into Southeast Asia. By interweaving history with artistic, liturgical, and textual interpretation, Hudson makes a remarkable contribution to our understanding of an Indian religious and cultural tradition.

The Body of God An Emperor s Palace for Krishna in Eighth Century Kanchipuram 1st Table of contents:

Part I The Approach to the Vishnu-house

  1. The Significance of the Temple

    • The Name of the Vishnu-house: Paramecchura as God, Emperor, and Architect

  2. Six Concepts

    • God as Person

    • God as Place

    • God as Father and Mother

    • The Doctrine of Formation (Vyuha)

    • The Structure of the Person

    • Inner Vision (Dhyana)

  3. The Poem

  4. The Emperor’s Career Portrayed on the Prakara Wall

    • The Career of Nandivarman Pallavamalla

    • The Prakara Wall and the Sculpted Lions

    • Nandivarman’s Career Depicted

    • Nandivarman Depicted as Bhagavata Emperor Enthroned

Part II The Secret Dimension of the Vishnu-house

  1. The Temple Mandala and the Bottom-floor Sanctum

    • The Temple Mandala

    • The Three Sanctums

    • The Bottom-floor Sanctum: God’s Vyuha Formations

    • The Vasudeva Formation Enthroned in the Bottom-Floor Sanctum

    • The Circumambulatory

    • The Mandala’s Two Axes of Directional Space

    • Chronology and the Mandala

  2. The Middle-floor Sanctum: The Sculpted Program of the Northern Path

    • The Two Paths

    • “Approaching the Honey of the Lotus Feet”: Sculpted Panels of the Northern Path

    • The Panels on the Western Side

      • Panel 1: The Murti Padmanabha

      • Panel 2: The Seven Seers

      • Panel 3: Ashtabhujasvamin: The Lord with Eight Arms

      • Panel 4: Krishna Slays the Asura Keshin in the Shape of a Horse

    • The Panels on the Eastern Side

      • Panel 11: Krishna Addresses the Gopis from Akrura’s Chariot

      • Panel 12: [A] Krishna Sits with Balarama in Akrura’s chariot; [B] Krishna as “Hari the Ruler of Yoga” Wrestles Chanura in Mathura as Kamsa Watches; [C] Krishna Stands as Victorious Madhava

  3. Northern Panels of the Northern Path: Transforming Power

    • The Person of Four Bodies

    • Purification on the North

    • Panel 5: Hari Rescues Gajendra

    • Panel 6: Rama Disciplines Ocean on the Way to Lanka

    • Panel 7: Hari as Ajita Churns the Ocean of Milk

  4. Northern Panels of the Northern Path: Fortifying Omniscience

    • Blazing Omniscient Knowledge

    • Panel 8: Narasimha Grasps Hiranyakashipu

    • Panel 9: Narasimha Rips Open Hiranyakashipu at His Navel

    • Panel 10: Krishna Dances on Kaliya the Snake in a Pool of the Yamuna River

  5. The Middle-Floor Sanctum: The Sculpted Program of the Southern Path

    • Western Panels of the Southern Path

      • Panel 13: The Murti Hrishikesha

      • Panel 14: Vamana the Dwarf at Bali’s Horse Sacrifice

      • Panel 15: Vamana the Dwarf as Trivikrama the Thrice-strider

      • Panel 16: Narayana Protects Bali from Ravana

    • Eastern Panels of the Southern Path

      • Panel 23: Krishna Leaps up to Slay Kamsa

      • Panel 24: Yudhishthira Dons Boar-skin Shoes at His Rajasuya

  6. The Southern Panels of the Southern Path: “The Path of the Southern Doctrine”

    • Panel 17: Indra Disrupts King Prithu’s Horse Sacrifice

    • Panel 18: Krishna Enters Naraka’s Palace Where 16,000 Royal Virgins Are Held Captive

    • Panel 19: Hari as Madhusudana, Slayer of the Asuras Madhu and Kaitabha

    • Panel 20: Vishnu Kills Mali, Sumali, and Malyavan on the Shore of the Milk Ocean

    • Panel 21: Krishna Slays Shishupala at Yudhishthira’s Rajasuya

    • Panel 22: Krishna Attacks Shalva and Dantavaktra

Part III The Public Dimension of the Vishnu-house

  • Introduction: Spacetime and Its Display

  • The Depiction of Spacetime

  • The Organization of Spacetime

  • Brahma’s Body

  • Representations of Earth on the Vimana and Porch

  • Representations of Day-and-night, Month, and Age

  1. The Vimana Panels on the Western Side

    • The Corner Panels of the Vimana’s Western Side

      • Panel W1: The Unbounded Tortoise (Akupara)

      • Panel W6: Brahma Venerates Varaha to Begin the Daytime of Boar

    • The Bracketed Panels

      • Panel W2: The Bhagavan on Lokaloka

      • Panel W3: Kalki above Devapi of the Lunar Dynasty

      • Panel W4: Kalki above Maru of the Solar Dynasty

      • Panel W5: Surya the Sun Flies over the Continent of Plaksha

  2. The Panels on the Ardhamandapa or Porch

    • The Panels on the Porch Facing South

      • Panel SP1: Hari Flanked by Rudra and Daksha

      • Panel SP2: Dwarf Crowned as Upendra with Bali and Indra

      • Panel SP3: Vaikuntha Appears to the Kumaras at the Cursing of Jaya and Vijaya

    • The Panels on the Porch Facing North

      • Panel NP1: Bhadrashravas Worships Hayagriva in the Region of Bhadrashva

      • Panel NP2: The Person of the Sacrifice Announces Rishabha’s Birth

      • Panel NP3: The Person of the Sacrifice Appears to Rishabha’s Son Bharata

  3. The Vimana Panels on the Northern Side

    • The Two Corner Panels

      • Panel N1: Vasudeva Teaching as Vaikunthanatha

      • Panel N6: Ananta the Endless

    • Slit-Opening Flanked by Pratiharas

    • The Four Bracketed Panels

      • Panel N2: Naranarayana and Narada in the Region of Bharata

      • Panel N3: Hari Announces Kapila’s Birth to Kardama

    • Slit-Opening to the Samkarshana Formation

      • Panel N4: Hari Teaches Brahma the Supreme Secret of Omniscience

      • Panel N5: Markandeya Teaches about the Rishis Nara and Narayana

  4. The Vimana Panels on the Eastern Side

    • The Two Corner Panels

      • Panel E1: Brahma Worshiped on the Continent of Pushkara and His Four Kumara Sons

      • Panel E6: Bhava on Kailasa Venerates Pradyumna

    • The Four Bracketed Panels

      • Panel E2: The Bhagavan Honors Dhruva with the Dhruva Realm

      • Panel E3: Brahma Flees to the Bhagavan from His Asura Progeny

      • Panel E4: Hanuman Worships Rama in the Kimpurusha Region of Jambu

      • Panel E5: Kamadeva in the Ketumala Region of Jambu Plays “Krishna Holding up Govardhana”

  5. The Vimana Panels on the Southern Side

    • The Two Corner Panels

      • Panel S1: Dattatreya Sits with Soma and Durvasas

      • Panel S6: Mohini Serves the Devas Amrita as the Asuras Watch

    • The Four Bracketed Panels

      • Panel S2: Krishna in Dvaraka Teaches Uddhava the “Summary of the Brahman Doctrine,” 460

      • Panel S3: The Avadhuta Dattatreya Teaches King Yadu

      • Panel S4: Prahlada Worships Man-lion in the Region of Hari

      • Panel S5: Goddess Earth Worships Boar in the Region of Uttarakuru

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