God & King: The Devaraja Cult in South Asian Art & Architecture
Sengupta, Arputha Rani (Ed.)
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Book ID : 28958
ISBN-10 : 81-89233-26-2 / 8189233262
ISBN-13 : 978-81-89233-26-6 / 9788189233266
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition :
Language : English
170p., 11 Col. Plts., 25 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
George Cedes and K. Anand Coomaraswamy made astute observations on the cult of deifined royalty in South Asia for the first time. The cult of Deveraja or God King was the combodian state religion, while it may have originated in Java under the great Shrivijaya Empire at the time when it exercised some control over Cambodia and Siam. Of the thirteen temples attributed to the Khmer Kings in Cambodia six were certainly dedicated, between the ninth and eleventh centuries, to the royal linga. A Seventh, Angkor Wat, became the mausoleum of its founder suryavarman II. And, finally, Bayon, built at the end of the twelfth century was installed with an image of jayabuddha, named after jayavarma VII.