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A short introduction to the research project “Hindu Temple Legends in South India”

The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is the state academy of sciences of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. As a non-university research institution, its focus is in the humanities and cultural sciences. The South Indian temple town of Kanchipuram has for centuries been considered one of the most sacred sites in Hinduism. Its significance for Hindu religiosity is substantiated by a large number of mythological narratives, which have been handed down as written text since the medieval period. They are, however, also reflected in temple architectures, in iconography, in inscriptions, in material culture, in rituals, and in the oral traditions of the city. These narratives are also of central importance for the Hindu traditions as practiced today. The project ‘Hindu Temple Legends in South India’ explores these different forms of transmission and makes them accessible in a digital environment. The project produces digital editions of the Sanskrit and Tamil text and brings them together with a documentation of the respective temple architecture and iconography as well as the related rituals and oral traditions. This allows to preserve these important forms of Hindu cultural heritage and, at the same time, to enable new forms of analytical access. Learn more about the project at: https://hadw-bw.de/en/research/resear... The project “Hindu Temple Legends in South India” is funded by the Federal Republic and the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg via the Academies’ Programme. Follow us on social media: https://x.com/hadw_bw   / hadw_bw   A production by B & B Medien, Mannheim