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Title |
Title of document |
2. "Pagoda Tree": Plants and Other Foliate Motifs on Indian Coins through History - Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Shailendra Bhandare ; Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford); |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies; South Asian Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
Religions of South Asia; Indian coins; trees in Indian religion; Islamicate coins; trees on Indian coins |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
South Asian Religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
For millennia trees have been a part of India's sacred landscapes. They have been worshipped for the spirits that dwell upon them, as objects symbolizing plenitude and wish-fulfilment and in the context of ritual and totemic significance. Coinage offers a mirror to explore these tropes in the association trees have had in the cultural and historical past of India. This paper describes salient representations of trees on Indian coins and explores the themes pertaining to their raison d'être. While the focus of the paper lies on coins from c. 5th century BC - 5th century AD, we will also see how foliate motifs continued to feature in Islamicate coinages of India, where other representations were not encouraged and, in some instances, carried on standing for what exactly they did in the pre-Islamic past, thereby alluding to an interesting continuity in the representational tradition. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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20-Apr-2016 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26077 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.26077 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
South Asia |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |