Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas : Architecture ,Religion,and Nature in the Central Himalaya
By
Nachiket Chanchani
Contributor
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Item Type
Hardbound
Serial
15855
Publisher
Niyogi Books
Description
268 p.
ISBN / ISSN No.
978-93-91125-13-4
Summay
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage.
DDC Classification No.
720
Accession No.
15855
Current Location
Neeti Bagh
Shelving location
7
Category
Architecture - India