[INDOLOGY] Was A?oka an iconoclast?

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Matsyapurana's discussion on temple architecture and installation and
placing of sculptures or icons in various portions of the temple and many
other such related matters is also relevant here.

Of course, dating of the book is another issue tied up to this. But it
certainly is older than Gupta -Udayagiri date.

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Shaw, Julia via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> ps
>
> There is evident overlap here with the banned hilltop festivals
> (gir-agga-samajjan) mentioned in Aṅguttara Nikāya II. 550, and Asoka’s
> edicts nos. 1 and 9.  For linkages with yakṣas caitya in relation to
> topographical and cultic patterns in Sanchi's wider archaeological
> landscape, see Shaw 2007, 141-2.  The following may also be helpful: Hardy,
> E. 1903. ’Ueber den upsprung des samajja’, in Album Kern: opstellen
> geschreven ter eere Van H.K. Kern hem aangeboden. Leiden: E. J. Brill,
> 61-6.
>
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> Dr Julia Shaw
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> Lecturer in South Asian Archaeology
>
> Institute of Archaeology UCL
>
> 31-34 Gordon Square
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> London WC1H 0PY
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> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/shaw
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* Shaw, Julia
> *Sent:* 27 May 2017 21:28
> *To:* indology at list.indology.info
> *Cc:* Artur Karp
> *Subject:* Was A?oka an iconoclast?
>
>
> I suggest you have a look at the material on the Vasudeva - Samkarsana
> iconography within the pancaratra system of 3rd - 2nd century BC.   This
> covers also some early Naga imagery, the earliest being aligned with
> Balarama iconography. Independent naga images are somewhat later. Some of
> the yaksas and yaksi sculptures are arguably Mauryan, certainly
> post-Mauryan (sorry for lack of diacritics... writing this on my phone).
>
> My 2004 Artibus Asiae  article (updated in my 2007 book, Buddhist
> Landscapes in Central India, British Academy) provides detailed discussion
> and bibliography for the above.
>
> https://www.academia.edu/6618122/Naga_sculptures_in_
> Sanchi_s_archaeological_landscape_Buddhism_Vaisnavism_
> and_local_agricultural_cults_in_central_India_first_
> century_BCE_to_fifth_century_CE_2004_
>
> <https://www.academia.edu/6618122/Naga_sculptures_in_Sanchi_s_archaeological_landscape_Buddhism_Vaisnavism_and_local_agricultural_cults_in_central_India_first_century_BCE_to_fifth_century_CE_2004_>
> Naga sculptures in Sanchi’s archaeological landscape: Buddhism, Vaisnavism
> and local agricultural cults in central India, first century BCE to fifth
> century CE (2004)
> <https://www.academia.edu/6618122/Naga_sculptures_in_Sanchi_s_archaeological_landscape_Buddhism_Vaisnavism_and_local_agricultural_cults_in_central_India_first_century_BCE_to_fifth_century_CE_2004_>
> www.academia.edu
> Naga sculptures in Sanchi’s archaeological landscape: Buddhism, Vaisnavism
> and local agricultural cults in central India, first century BCE to fifth
> century CE (2004)
>
>
> And of course there is the enormous assemblage of terracotta deities, as
> studied recently for example by Naman Ahuja, not to mention the even larger
> and more poorly understood iconographies embodied in early Indian rock art
> (see Neumayer for example).
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Julia
>
>
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> Dr Julia Shaw
>
> Lecturer in South Asian Archaeology
>
> Institute of Archaeology UCL
>
> 31-34 Gordon Square
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> London WC1H 0PY
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> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/shaw
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Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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