Minor Majesties
This book is a study of the ancient small kingdom of Paluvūr, a town located about 30 km north of Tanjavur—today divided in two distinct villages and bearing the modern names of Kīlappaluvūr and Mēlappaluvūr. It was the capital of a minor dynasty, the dynasty of the Paluvēttaraiyars, active between...
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| description | This book is a study of the ancient small kingdom of Paluvūr, a town located about 30 km north of Tanjavur—today divided in two distinct villages and bearing the modern names of Kīlappaluvūr and Mēlappaluvūr. It was the capital of a minor dynasty, the dynasty of the Paluvēttaraiyars, active between the 9th and the 11th centuries, who swore allegiance to the Cōla dynasty. There are four still-standing Śiva temples in Paluvūr, built during the reign of the Paluvēttaraiyars little kings. For the first time, this book analyzes the four monuments in their entirety, scrutinizing their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. For this, the author carried out much fieldwork and established a corpus of 136 Tamil inscriptions engraved on the walls of the shrines, gathered at the end of the volume. Combining all these data, the author attempts to better understand, on the one hand, the functioning of the minor dynasty of the Paluvēttaraiyars whose little kings often appear in the inscriptions of the temples, and, on the other hand, to map the interactions between the temples. The small size of Paluvūr with its hub of still-standing monuments provides exceptionally clear material to outline the possible relations between distinct temples, allowing us to fathom complexities related to temple sponsorship, organization, and functioning as well as the way those religious monuments, accruing wealth but enabling others gravitating around them to accrue merit and power, become the place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1481062025-07-21T15:45:06Z Minor Majesties Gillet, Valérie minor dynasties, Tamil epigraphy, social history, religious history, temples, temple patronage, temple networks, local powers, devotion thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK South Asia (Indian sub-continent)::1FKA India thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BR Dravidian languages::2BRT Tamil thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRF Buddhism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVQ Religious sites / Holy or sacred places thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK South Asia (Indian sub-continent)::1FKA India thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BR Dravidian languages::2BRT Tamil thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRF Buddhism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVQ Religious sites / Holy or sacred places This book is a study of the ancient small kingdom of Paluvūr, a town located about 30 km north of Tanjavur—today divided in two distinct villages and bearing the modern names of Kīlappaluvūr and Mēlappaluvūr. It was the capital of a minor dynasty, the dynasty of the Paluvēttaraiyars, active between the 9th and the 11th centuries, who swore allegiance to the Cōla dynasty. There are four still-standing Śiva temples in Paluvūr, built during the reign of the Paluvēttaraiyars little kings. For the first time, this book analyzes the four monuments in their entirety, scrutinizing their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. For this, the author carried out much fieldwork and established a corpus of 136 Tamil inscriptions engraved on the walls of the shrines, gathered at the end of the volume. Combining all these data, the author attempts to better understand, on the one hand, the functioning of the minor dynasty of the Paluvēttaraiyars whose little kings often appear in the inscriptions of the temples, and, on the other hand, to map the interactions between the temples. The small size of Paluvūr with its hub of still-standing monuments provides exceptionally clear material to outline the possible relations between distinct temples, allowing us to fathom complexities related to temple sponsorship, organization, and functioning as well as the way those religious monuments, accruing wealth but enabling others gravitating around them to accrue merit and power, become the place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices. 2024-11-20T04:34:30Z 2024-11-20T04:34:30Z 2024-11-19T14:18:14Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94767 9780197757710 9780197757734 9780197757741 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/148106 eng South Asia Research open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94767/1/Gillet_9780197757727_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94767/1/Gillet_9780197757727_WEB.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780197757710.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780197757710.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 École française d'Extrême-Orient 81114881-0695-4d9e-8d58-0469d8fc957c 9780197757710 9780197757734 9780197757741 409 New York open access |
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