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This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal.
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Contents
1. Urbanization in Early Historic Vaiśālī c. 600 BCE-400 CE 2. The Socio-Religious Dimensions of Dedicatory Inscriptions on Sculptures Donated to a Buddhist Establishment in Early Medieval Magadha: Kurkihar, c. 800 CE -1200 CE 3. A Folk Tradition Integrated into Mahāyāna Buddhism: Some Observations on the Votive Inscriptions on Sculptures of Puṇḍeśvarī/Pūrṇeśvarī/Puṇyeśvarī Discovered in the Kiul-Lakhisarai Area, Bihar 4. The Social Bases of Patronage to the Vikramaśilā Mahāvihāra: An Epigraphic Enquiry 5. Evolution of the Social Bases of Patronage to the Sacred Complex of Mandāra Hill: An Inscriptional Enquiry 6. Brahmanical Temples, Mathas, Agrahāras and a Buddhist Establishment in a Marshy and Forested Periphery of Two 'Frontier' States: Early Medieval Surma Valley (Sylhet and Cachar), c. 600 CE-1100 CE 7. A 'Nālandā Monk' in the Late Thirteenth-Early Fourteenth Century India, Tibet, China and Korea: A Note on the 'Poetic Inscription' on a Korean Stūpa Erected in the Memory of Dhyānabhadra 8. Pilgrimage to Gayā, c. 1200 CE -1550 CE: A Study of Some Sanskrit Inscriptions Discovered at Gayā
