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  title info:
    title: Opening Kailasanatha
    sub title: the temple in Kanchipuram revealed in time and space
  name:
    name part: Kaimal, Padma Audrey
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in southeastern India, built by rulers who were both warriors and ascetics, engaged in the work of this world and in spiritual quests. They designed their temple as an exuberant visual feast to sustain both modes of being. In 'Opening Kailasanatha,' Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of the monument's makers, reaching back across centuries to illuminate worldviews of the ancient Indic south. She reveals how circling the complex in a clockwise direction focuses the mind and spirit on worldly engagement, in a counterclockwise direction, on renunciation and ascetic practice. This pairing of highly charged, complementary pathways enabled devotees to grasp these counterpoised opportunities in their own listening, gazing, moving bodies. By focusing on the material form of the complex, the architecture, inscriptions and sculptures, along with the spaces they carve out that guide light, shadow, sound and footsteps, Kaimal offers insights that complement what surviving texts tell us about Shaiva Siddhanta ideas and practices, providing a rare opportunity to walk in the distant past.
  note: Padma Kaimal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kailasanatha Temple (Kānchipuram, India)
  subject:
    topic: Temples
    geographic: India
    geographic: Kānchipuram
  classification: NA6008 .K35 2020
  classification: 726/.1450954
  identifier: 0295747773
  identifier: 9780295747774
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200424
    record change date: 20210728154733.0
    record identifier: in00004420889