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Dennis Hudson, bringing together the results of a lifetime of interdisciplinary study of south Indian Hinduism. The book is a finely detailed examination of a virtually unstudied Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 C.E.). Hudson offers a sustained reading of the temple as a coherent, organized, minutely conceptualized mandala. Its iconography and structure can be understood in the light of a ten-stanza poem by the Alvar poet Tirumangai, and of the Bhagavata Purana and other major religious texts, even as it in turn illuminates the meanings of those texts. Hudson takes the reader step by step on a tour of the temple, telling the stories suggested by each of the 56 sculpted panels and showing how their relationship to one another brings out layers of meaning. He correlates the stories with stages in the spiritual growth of the king through the complex rituals that formed a crucial dimension of the religion. The result is a tapestry of interpretation that brings to life the richness of spiritual understanding embodied in the temple. Hudson's underlying assumption is that the temple itself constitutes a summa theologica for the Pancharatra doctrines in the Bhagavata tradition centered on Krishna as it had developed through the eighth century. This tradition was already ancient and had spread widely across South Asia and into Southeast Asia. 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class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Who Are the Bhagavatas?</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>491</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Vasudevas Path in the Satvatasamhita</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>503</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Prithu the Peoples Indra</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>515</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="second_toc_column"><div class="second_toc_pad"><table><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Mantras in the Jayakhyasamhita</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>529</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Periya Tirumoli 29</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>533</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Notes</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>537</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span dir=ltr>Glossary</span></span></div></td><td class="toc_number" align=right>573</td></tr><tr><td class="toc_border"> </td><td class="toc_border"></td></tr><tr><td class="toc_entry"><div class="toc_entry"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><span 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href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=devotee&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>devotee</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=dharma&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud6"><span dir=ltr>dharma</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=Dhruva&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Dhruva</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=embodied&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>embodied</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=faces&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>faces</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=figure&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud7"><span dir=ltr>figure</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=formation&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>formation</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=four&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>four</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=Garuda&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Garuda</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=Goddess+Earth&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud8"><span dir=ltr>Goddess Earth</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=Hari&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud5"><span dir=ltr>Hari</span></a> <a href="https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;q=Hayagriva&amp;source=gbs_word_cloud_r&amp;cad=4" class="cloud9"><span dir=ltr>Hayagriva</span></a> <a 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Dennis Hudson (1938-2006) was Professor Emeritus of World Religions at Smith College from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. He published numerous articles, most related to his lifelong study of Vaikintha Perumal Temple in Kanchipuram. In addition, he published Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 in 2000. About the editor: Margaret Case was for many years Asian Studies editor at Princeton University Press. She is the editor of Govindadeva: A Dialogue in Stone (1996) and author of Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahman Family in Vrindaban (2000). She organized this volume from virtually complete but differently structured chapters, and compiled the glossary with diacritical marks.</div></div></div></div><div class=vertical_module_list_row><h3 class="about_title">Bibliographic information</h3><div class="about_content" id="metadata_content" style="padding-bottom:.3em"><div class="metadata_sectionwrap"><table id="metadata_content_table"><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label">Title</td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>The Body of God: An Emperor&#39;s Palace for Krishna in Eighth-Century Kanchipuram</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Author</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=inauthor:%22D+Dennis+Hudson%22&amp;source=gbs_metadata_r&amp;cad=6"><span dir=ltr>D Dennis Hudson</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Publisher</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>Oxford University Press, 2008</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>ISBN</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>0199709025, 9780199709021</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Length</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><span dir=ltr>608 pages</span></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Subjects</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=subject:%22Religion%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">Religion</span></a></div>&nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;<div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=subject:%22Religion+Hinduism%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">Hinduism</span></a></div>&nbsp;&#8250;&nbsp;<div style="display:inline" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=subject:%22Religion+Hinduism+General%22" itemprop="url" dir=ltr><span itemprop="title">General</span></a></div><br><br><a class="primary" href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?tbo=p&amp;tbm=bks&amp;q=subject:%22Religion+/+Hinduism+/+General%22&amp;source=gbs_metadata_r&amp;cad=6"><span dir=ltr>Religion / Hinduism / General</span></a></td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td>&nbsp</td><td>&nbsp</td></tr><tr class="metadata_row"><td class="metadata_label"><span dir=ltr>Export Citation</span></td><td class="metadata_value"><a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/The_Body_of_God.bibtex?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;output=bibtex"><span dir=ltr>BiBTeX</span></a>&nbsp;<a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/The_Body_of_God.enw?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;output=enw"><span dir=ltr>EndNote</span></a>&nbsp;<a class="gb-button " href="https://books.google.com.sg/books/download/The_Body_of_God.ris?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&amp;output=ris"><span dir=ltr>RefMan</span></a></td></tr></table></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div><script>_OC_addFlags({Host:"https://books.google.com.sg/", IsBrowsingHistoryEnabled:1, IsBooksUnifiedLeftNavEnabled:1, IsBooksRentalEnabled:1, IsZipitFolderCollectionEnabled:1});_OC_Run({"is_cobrand":false,"sign_in_url":"https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?service=print\u0026continue=https://books.google.com.sg/books%3Fid%3DIMCxbOezDi4C%26redir_esc%3Dy%26hl%3Den\u0026hl=en"}, {"volume_id":"IMCxbOezDi4C","is_ebook":true,"volumeresult":{"has_flowing_text":true,"has_scanned_text":true,"can_download_pdf":false,"can_download_epub":false,"is_pdf_drm_enabled":false,"is_epub_drm_enabled":false},"sample_url":"https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=IMCxbOezDi4C\u0026source=gbs_atb_hover","is_browsable":true,"is_public_domain":false}, {});</script><div id="footer_table" style="font-size:83%;text-align:center;position:relative;top:20px;height:4.5em;margin-top:2em"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><a href="/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html"><nobr><nobr>About Google Books</nobr></nobr></a> - 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