Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India

337 Pages·2003·3.579 MB·English

by  Anne Feldhaus (auth.)

CONNECTED PLACES
REGION, PILGRIMAGE, AND
GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION IN INDIA
Anne Feldhaus
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Connected Places
Region, Pilgrimage, and
Geographical Imagination in India
ANNE FELDHAUS
CONNECTEDPLACES
© Feldhaus,2003
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Feldhaus,Anne.
Connected places :region,pilgrimage,and geographical imagination
in India / Anne Feldhaus
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Maharashtra (India)—History 2.Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages—
India—Maharashtra. I.Title.
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Contents
List of Maps viii
List of Figures ix
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation xvii
Introduction 1
1. Rivers and Regional Consciousness 17
2. The Pilgrimage to difggapor 45
3. Traveling Goddesses 89
4. The Arithmetic of Place: Numbered Sets of Places 127
5. The Algebra of Place: Replication of
North Indian Religious Geography in Maharashtra 157
6. Pilgrimage and Remembrance: Biography and
Geography in the Mahanubhav Tradition 185
7. Conclusion 211
Notes 223
Bibliography 265
Abbreviations 289
Index 291
List of Maps
Districts of Maharashtra xii
0.1 Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka,
with major rivers of the Deccan 2
1.1 The eight limbs of the Godavari 20
1.2 The Rahuridemon story 25
1.3 The Daugtpilgrimage 32
1.4 Gods carried to the Krsgariver 35
2.1 The pilgrimage to difggapor 46
3.1 Jagai’s pilgrimage 93
3.2 The palanquin and bedstead pilgrimage to Tuljapor 102
3.3 Malai’s pilgrimage 111
3.4 Ambejogaiand the Kofkag 117
4.1 Sets of pilgrimage places throughout India 130
4.2 The three-and-a-half dakti Pivhs 137
4.3 The Asvavinayak 141
4.4 The Eleven Marutis 149
6.1 Mahanubhav holy places in Maharashtra 195
6.2 qddhipor 200
7.1 The Varkaripilgrimage 217
List of Figures
1.1 Palanquin procession to the Bhimariver at Daugt
onAsathiEkadaci 33
1.2 The ferry boat at the confluence of the Krsgaand
Koynarivers at Karat 36
2.1 Men pulling a kCvaTup MufgiGhavatdifggapor 53
2.2 BhutojiTelifrom Sasvatduring the pilgrimage to
difggapor 64
3.1 Jagai’s palanquin returning to Jejuri 96
3.2 Laksmiaiat Rahuri 120
4.1 A typical Asvavinayak picture 147
4.2 Mural of Ramdas and the Eleven Marutis, Pargav 152