Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan

Michael W. Meister

Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
26 July 2010
Pages
172
ISBN
9789004186170

Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan

Michael W. Meister

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 Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture project, this volume finally allows the Salt Range and Indus temples to be integrated with the greater South Asian tradition.

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