Worldly gurus and spiritual kings : architecture and asceticism in medieval India / Tamara I. Sears.
This pioneering book is the first full-length study of the matha, or Hindu monastery, which developed in India at the turn of the first millennium. Rendered monumentally in stone, the matha represented more than just an architectural innovation: it signaled the institutionalization of asceticism int...
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