Routes, Patterns, Ideologies: Navigating Sacred Sites in India

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

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https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1561

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09/30/2025

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

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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Contents

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

Backcover

Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing