دانلود کتاب Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples - Episodes from Indian History
by Meenakshi Jain
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عنوان فارسی: پرواز خدایان و تولد دوباره معابد - قسمت هایی از تاریخ هند |
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Equally worthy of study was the fate of images enshrined in temples. Many were swiftly removed by anxious devotees, many more were hurriedly buried; some remained on the move for decades, till such time they could be escorted back to their abodes. In several cases, images were damaged in flight. Countless images were lost, as their places of burial were forgotten over time. That necessitated the consecration of new images in more peaceable circumstances. So there were temples of the tenth-eleventh centuries, which housed images instated in the sixteenth. In situations where neither temple nor image could be safeguarded, the memory endured, and a shrine was recreated after an interval of several centuries