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GOVINDADEVA : A DIALOGUE IN STONE

Edited by MARGARET CASE
Photographs by ROBYN BEECHE
Foreword by SHRIVATSA GOSWAM
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1996, xxi+305pp. line drawings, b&w illus., ISBN: 81-85503-03-6, Rs 2000(HB)


This volume is the second in the series of publications relating to the Vraja region.  Incorporating the papers presented at a conference held in 191, the present study brings into focus the multi-faceted and multi-layered personality of Vraja through the great Temple known as Govindadeva of the Mughal period.  It presents a detailed study of Govindadeva's design and iconography, richly illusrated wih photographs and drawings, Other chapters discuss the history of its construction and photographs and drawings.  Other chapters discuss the history of its construction and desecration under Aurangzeb, and describe the temples built along the way for the image of Sri Govindadeva when he travelled to his present home in Jaipur.  Documentation from manuscript archives brings alive the lineage of priests serving the temple, and the ritual life of the temple is reconstructed from manuscript sources.  The authors are noted Indian, American, and European scholars.

 

MARGARET H. CASE lives in Vrindaban and  Lawrenceville, New Jersey.  She has edited a number of volumes, most recently Heinrich Zimmer : Coming into His Own (Princeton Unversity Press, 1994)

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