ASCETICS, PIETY AND POWER: Saiva Siddhanta Monastic Art in the Woodlands of Central India Business & Economics links to Student Resources on

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ASCETICS, PIETY AND POWER: Saiva Siddhanta Monastic Art in the Woodlands of Central India Business & Economics links to Student Resources onType: English Pages: xii + 218 Format: Hard Bound ISBN: 9788173056055 Edition: 1st Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL Size: 22 cm 28 cm Product Year: 2018 The book attempts to recapture the material milieu, spiritual anchorage and power and authority of SaivaSiddhanta ascetics in the Vindhyan woodlands of central India during the early medieval times. In doing so, it also highlights contradictions that coupled renunciation with acquisitive