The World of the Skandapurāṇa.

Intro -- The World of the Skandapurāṇa -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A TOUR D'HORIZON -- Preamble -- The geographical and historical perimeter -- The cultural framework -- The Vaiṣṇava world -- The sphere of Goddess worship -- The outside world -- The heterodox religions and the Sāṃkhya -- The Śaiva world -- The centre -- COMPOSITION AND SPREAD OF THE SKANDAPURĀṆA: A POSSIBLE SCENARIO -- I The World of Power The Political Landscape from Skandagupta to Harṣavardhana's successors -- THE TWILIGHT OF THE GUPTA EMPIRE -- Hūṇa Attacks and Inner Fragmentation -- Skandagupta -- Budhagupta -- Harivarman -- Toramāṇa -- The Aulikara rulers of Daśapura, Mandasor -- Yaśodharman -- Mihirakula -- THE MAUKHARIS -- The Origin of the Maukhari Dynasty -- Harivarman -- The Maukharis of the Gayā Region -- The Maukharis of Kanauj -- Īśvaravarman -- Īśānavarman -- The Sūlikas -- The Andhras -- The Gauḍas -- A Period of Stability and Cultural Bloom -- Śarvavarman and Avantivarman -- The Kaumudīmahotsava -- Viśākhadatta -- A RESHUFFLE OF POWER IN MADHYADEŚA -- The Thanesar-Kanauj Axis -- Preamble -- Sthāneśvara -- Mālava -- The Mālava-Gauḍa conspiracy -- Harṣavardhana's consecration -- Śaśāṅka -- THE REIGN OF HARṢAVARDHANA (AD 612-647) -- A Literary and a Buddhist Record -- Bāṇa's introduction to the court -- Harṣa's campaigns against Gauḍa -- The Establishment of an Empire -- The East: Bengal and Orissa -- The South: Harṣa's struggle with the Cālukyas -- A looming threat from the West -- Foreign Affairs: The empire in the international arena -- The 'Arena of Charitable Offerings' -- The end of an epoch -- The aftermath: the rise of the Gupta kings of Magadhā -- The Skandapurāṇa reaches Nepal -- II The World of Culture The Skandapurāṇaits composition and position within the literary and religious landscape.

THE PĀŚUPATA MOVEMENT AND THE SKANDAPURĀṆA -- The Composition and Transmission of the Skandapurāṇa -- The historical time frame -- Vārāṇasī -- The Pāśupata history as told in SPS 167 -- The Junvānī Copperplate Inscription of Mahāśivagupta -- The Lāguḍi tradition -- Diversity and coherence of the Pāśupata movement -- The Kāpālikas of Magadhā -- The Mahāvrata -- THE SKANDAPURĀṆA AND BĀṆA'S HARṢACARITA -- Preamble -- The Purāṇa in Performance -- Bāṇa's Family Tree and the Foundation of Sthāneśvara -- The Myth of Dadhīca -- The Abhiṣeka of Skanda and Harṣavardhana -- Nīlalohita and Kurukṣetra -- Kurukṣetra -- Conclusion -- THE MYTH OF DAKṢA'S SACRIFICE -- Preamble -- Bhadreśvara -- The initiation of the gods in the Pāśupata vrata -- Bhadreśvara: the site -- Kubjāmraka -- Brahmāvarta -- Kanakhala -- Conclusion -- THE SEVEN BRAHMINS, KING UDAYANA, AND ŚVETA'S STRUGGLE WITH DEATH -- The Legend of the Seven Brahmins -- Historical evidence -- Literary evidence -- The seven deer of Kālañjara -- Mṛgadhārā -- King Udayana -- The Kalacuris of Ujjain -- Udayana, Vasanta, and the carrier -- The Story of Śveta -- Śveta in the Skandapurāṅa -- The Kalacuris of Kālañjara -- The twenty-eight incarnations -- The Pāsupatas and Śaivas of the Nīlakaṇṭha Temple complex -- Summary -- THE MYTH OF TILOTTAMĀ AND MAṆḌALEŚVARA -- Maṇḍaleśvarasvāmin and the Skandapurāṅa -- The myth of Tilottamā -- Muṅḍeśvarī Hill -- The inscription of Udayasena, Year 30 -- The Sites of Muṅḍeśvarī Hill -- The Temple of Maṇḍaleśvara -- Vinīteśvara -- The Tapovana -- Nārāyaṇadevakula -- Conclusion -- GODDESSES FROM THE EAST -- In cooperation with Yuko Yokochi -- Introduction -- Bangarh or Koṭivarṣa: the material evidence -- The Damodarpur Copperplate Inscriptions -- The Bangarh excavations -- Koṭivarṣa in Sanskrit Literature -- Vaiṣṇava sources of the Gupta age -- Koṭivarṣa and the Skandapurāṇa.

The Mātṛtantras or the seven Yāmalas -- Later Skandapurāṇa Transmission and the Pāla Kingdom -- APPENDIX -- The Koṭīvarṣamāhātmya of the Skandapurāṅa -- Introduction -- Part I (S recension): KoM(S) 1-23 -- Part I (RA recension): KoM(RA) 1-56 -- Part II (S &amp -- RA recensions): KoM 24-44 -- References -- FIGURES -- PLATES -- BIBILOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

The World of the Skandapurāṇa consists of two parts. In the first part the historical environment in which this Purāṇa was composed is described. The second part explores six localities in Northern India that play a prominent role in the text.

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