Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, c. Third Century BC to Fifth Century ADThe “monumental bias” of Buddhist archaeology has hampered our understanding of the socio-religious mechanisms that enabled early Buddhist monks to establish themselves in new areas. To articulate these relationships, Shaw presents here the first integrated study of settlement archaeology and Buddhist history, carried out in the area around Sanchi, a Central Indian UNESCO World Heritage site. Her comprehensive, data-rich, and heavily illustrated work provides an archaeological basis for assessing theories regarding the dialectical relationship between Buddhism and surrounding lay populations. It also sheds light on the role of the introduction of Buddhism in changing settlement patterns.This volume was originally published in 2007 by the British Association of South Asian Studies. |
Contents
CHRONOLOGY | 43 |
BUDDHIST SITES AND BUDDHIST LANDSCAPES | 57 |
PLATES 43137 | 111 |
NONBUDDHIST RITUAL SITES | 139 |
PLATES 138218 | 218 |
IRRIGATION SYSTEMS | 218 |
TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE | 232 |
NOTES | 241 |
POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE SANCHI AREA | |
RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN THE SANCHI AREA | |
THEORY AND METHOD OF LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY | ii |
RESEARCH DESIGN AND FIELD | ii |
PLATES 1642 | 16 |
APPENDICES | 587 |
associated sample numbers | 145 |
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10th century Agricultural plain Ahmadpur ancient settlement Andher archaeological Architecture Balarama Besar talai Besnagar Betwa Bharhut Brahmanical Buddha Buddhist sites capital carved central India century AD Phase Chalcolithic Chandna complex courtyard monastery Cunningham datable deities Devrajpur discussed in chapter early-historic east eastern evidence excavations Ferozpur fifth century Figure Gangetic valley Gupta period Heliodorus pillar hilltop inscription irrigation kherai landscape archaeology Madhya Pradesh major Material Mathura Mauryan Mauryan empire Mawasa microlithic Miscellaneous Sculpture modern village monastery monastic monks Morel khurd Museum nāga Nagauri nāla Natural shrine P.S. Primary context pile in worship Plate platform post-Mauryan Quickbird railing relic religious reservoir ritual River Betwa rock-shelters Sanchi area Sanchi hill sangha Satdhara Sculpture pile sculptures under worship second century BC Sector Settlement mound Shaw and Sutcliffe Sonari stone structures Stupa survey tank Temple remains textual tradition Udayagiri Vidisha Visnu wares yakṣa