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Title |
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1. Five Stones – Four Rivers – One Town: The Hindu Pañcāyatanapūjā - Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Mikael Aktor; University of Southern Denmark; |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies; South Asian Studies; Anthropology |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
pañcāyatanapūjā; Devī; Sūrya; Gaṇeśa; Viṣṇu; Śiva; Vaiṣṇava; Śaiva; Śākta; petromorphic aniconicity |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
South Asian religion; vernacular religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
The pañcāyatanapūjā is a worship of five deities, Devī, Sūrya, Gaṇeśa, Viṣṇu and Śiva, in a manner in which the affiliation of the worshipper, e.g. as Vaiṣṇava, Śaiva, Śākta etc., determines which of the five will be placed at the centre of the tray on which the deities are placed. But in addition, the deities are worshipped here not in their anthropomorphic forms but in their aniconic forms as five stones. Each of the stones originates from a particular location, four of them in a river, one near a town. Like the great pan-Indian pilgrimage circuits the geographical extent of these locations covers the whole of South Asia from the Gandaki River in northern Nepal to Vallam Town in Tamil Nadu. The chapter examines each of these stones – their visual qualities and their mythological and iconographical associations with their respective deities, the collection, manufacturing and marketing, as well as their present ritual use. It will bring to light the significance of this inclusive ritual in the historical context of sectarian conflicts, and it will include an analysis based on a discussion of petromorphic aniconicity in the theoretical context of human cognition of the natural world.
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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15-Aug-2016 |
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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/29650 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.29650 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy |
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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 |