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oapen-20.500.12657-320762021-11-04T14:13:44Z Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court Stoker, Valerie vyasatirtha hinduism vijayanagar empire Advaita Vedanta Brahmin Dvaita Vedanta Matha Moksha Sectarianism Smarta tradition Sringeri bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRK Other non-Christian religions How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vy?sat?rtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vy?sat?rtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule. 2016-10-07 00:00:00 2020-04-01T13:57:46Z 2020-04-01T13:57:46Z 2016 book 617910 OCN: 959728089 9780520965461 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32076 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 617910.pdf https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.18 University of California Press 10.1525/luminos.18 10.1525/luminos.18 72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b 9780520965461 230 Oakland, California open access
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How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vy?sat?rtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vy?sat?rtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.
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