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Dębicka-Borek, Ewa and Peres, Ofer (Eds.): Routes, Patterns, Ideologies: Navigating Sacred Sites in India, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025 (Ethno-Indology: Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals, Volume 18). https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1561

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09/30/2025

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Ewa Dębicka-Borek (Ed.), Ofer Peres (Ed.)

Routes, Patterns, Ideologies

Navigating Sacred Sites in India

Ethno-Indology: Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals

Hindu sacred geographies are shaped by interwoven webs of myth, ritual, and pilgrimage. Routes, Patterns, Ideologies: Navigating Sacred Sites in India brings together essays that offer in-depth explorations of Hindu sacred spaces, focusing on the relationships between sites as a crucial dimension of their theological and social significance. Drawing on textual analysis, visual studies, and ethnographic insights, the contributors to this volume illuminate the patterns and mechanisms that link sacred sites into dynamic networks, demonstrating how sacrality is continually negotiated through evolving cultural, political, and theological landscapes.

Ewa Dębicka-Borek is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies, specializing in Sanskrit literary traditions. Her research primarily focuses on Sanskrit religious literature, with a focus on the Pāñcarātra tradition and eulogies of Hindu sacred sites (māhātmyas). She is especially interested in the socio-religious history of the Vaishnava center of Narasiṃha worship at Ahobilam.

Ofer Peres is a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research fields include South Asian religious history, Tamil and Sanskrit literature, and early-modern Tamil Śaivism.

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Table of Contents
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Front Matter
i-iv
Contents
v
Ewa Dębicka-Borek, Ofer Peres
Introduction
1-8
Sravani Kanamarlapudi
Sacred Itineraries and ‘Intersacrality’ in Premodern Sthalapurāṇas
9-34
R. Sathyanarayanan
Rāmeśvaram Sacred Sand and Gaṅgā Holy Water
The Pilgrimage to Prayāga Starts from Rāmeśvaram
35-57
Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz
Tracing Raṅganātha’s Journey
59-91
Jonas Buchholz
The City of Many Temples
Textual Representations of Kanchipuram’s Śaiva Temple Network
93-122
Ofer Peres
Murukaṉ’s “Six Battle-Camps”
The Origin and Development of the Āṟupaṭaivīṭu Concept
123-169
Ewa Dębicka-Borek
Nine Narasiṃhas of Ahobilam
On Marking Sacred Territory, God’s Manifoldness, and Polyphony of Narratives
171-220
Ute Hüsken
Four Viṣṇus in Kanchipuram
Cooperation and Competition
221-255
Olga Nowicka
Temple Arithmetic
Brother Temples of Kerala
257-286
Jigyasa Meena
Sacred Spaces, Legitimacy and Connections
Socio-Political Mobilisation in Princely States of Southern Rajputana
287-321
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