VOL. 3

THE AGAMIC TRADITION AND THE ARTS

Edited  by BETTINA BAUMER

Contents

•  Foreword (Kapila Vatsyayan)  
• List of Plates;  View all Plates
• Abbreviations; 
• Introduction (Bettina Bäumer)  

1. Ritual Sublimation of Elements In P¡µcar¡tra Ëgama (Prabhakar P. Apte)  
2. The Pentadic Universe in the Shaivagamas (H.N. Chakravarty)
3. Paµcabh£tas in áaiva Ritual With Special Reference to Bh£ta¿uddhi (S.S. Janaki)  
4. Ëgamic Treatment of Mah¡bh£tas In Relation to Ma¸·alas and Arts  (S.P. Sabarathinam)  
5. From Sensuous to Supersensuous: Some Terms of Indian Aesthetics (K.D. Tripathi)  
6. The Cosmic View of Ra´gadaivatap£jana  The Question of its Ëamic Background  (Radhavallabh Tripathi)  
7. Mahabhutas in Sangita-Shastra: With Sepcial Reference to Yoga and Ayurveda (Prem Lata Sharma)
8. The Body as an Instrument : A Theoretical Choice Made by á¡r´gadeva (Mukund Lath)  
9. Lines of Fire, Lines of Water, The Elements in áilpa¿¡stras (Bettina Bäumer)
10. The Unity and Gravity of an Elemental Architecture (Michael W. Meister)
11. Concept of Space in the Vastu Tradition: My Experience (V. Ganapati Sthapati)  
12. Ecology and Indian Myth (Kapila Vatsyayan)  
13. The Cosmic Elements in India: An Agenda of Questions (Ashok R. Kelkar)  
14. Mahabhuta in Determining Cultural Ecology (Bryan Mulvihill)  

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Volume 3 examines the manifestation of the Elements/Bhutas in Indian arts, together with their Agamic background — highlighting how the monumental architecture, sculpture, painting, music or dance, poetry or theatre, is created not only on the comprehension of space and time, but on the system of correspondences, first for embodying, the then for evoking the Elements. Re-opening, thus, the structure of indigenous arts: at its primal level — from different vantage points of the architect, sculptor, painter, musician and dancer, the authors also focus on cultural ecology, theories of aesthetics, and the artist’s creative experience of transforming the gross into subtle, among other attendant issues.

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