Valérie Gillet

Minor Majesties (eBook, ePUB)

The Paluve¿¿araiyars and Their South Indian Kingdom of Paluvur, 9th-11th centuries A.D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluvur, a town located on the northern bank of the Kaveri river, about 30 kilometers north of Tanjavur. Between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E., Paluvur was the capital of the dynasty of the Paluve¿¿araiyars, a minor dynasty of "little kings" who swore allegiance to the Cola dynasty. Today, Paluvur is divided in two distinct villages, Kilappaluvur and Melappaluvur, and four temples dedicated to the god Siva built during the reign of the little kings remain standing. In Minor Majesties, author Valérie Gillet surveys, translates, and analyzes 136 Tamil transcriptions spread across these temples, scrutinizing in depth each one's materiality, location, and epigraphy for the first time. Through these analyses, Gillet brings forth a better understanding of the functioning of the minor dynasty of the Paluve¿¿araiyars whose little kings often appear in the inscriptions of the temples, as well as the interactions between the temples and their patronizing communities. The small size of Paluvur with its hub of still-standing monuments permits an exceptionally clear overview of the possible relations between distinct temples, allowing readers to unpick complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning. The study of Paluvur also reveals how these religious monuments-accruing wealth but, in exchange, enabling donors to accrue merit and power-became a place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices.Â

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197757734
• Artikelnr.: 72269117

Autorenporträt

Valérie Gillet is a specialist on South India. In 2007, she joined the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO); she was posted in the Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO between 2007 and 2016, and has been based in Paris since 2017. Gillet works primarily with material culture and Tamil epigraphy of the first millennium found on the territories of Paṇ?ya and Pallava dynasties, covering almost the entire Tamil-speaking South.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Note on the Transliteration of Tamil Words
* Abbreviations
* Maps, Plans, and Figures
* Introduction
* CHAPTER 1: A Tentative Biography of the Paluvettaraiyars
* CHAPTER 2. The Avanikantarpa / Avanigandharva Isvaragrham Mahadeva
Temple Complex (AIM) of Avanikantarpapuram / Avanigandharvapuram
* CHAPTER 3. The Pakaivitai Isvaragrham Mahadeva Temple (PIM) and the
Tiruttorramutaiyar of Mannupperumpaluvur
* CHAPTER 4. The Tiruvalanturai Mahadeva Temple of Cirupaluvur
* CHAPTER 5. The Maravanisvaragrhattu Mahadeva of Cirupaluvur
* CONCLUSION. The Configuration of Social and Political Powers of
Paluvur Through Its Religious Centres
* Appendix 1. The Epigraphical Corpus of Paluvur
* Appendix 2. The Paluvettaraiyars in Inscriptions Outside Paluvur
* Appendix 3. Hymn 2.34 of the Tevaram by Campantar, Dedicated to
Paluvur
* Appendix 4. Photographs of Paluvur
* Bibliography
* Index