Umakanta Mishra
Biographic Data
| ID | 8751060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umakanta Mishra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umakanta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishra |
| SIGNATURE | MISHRA U |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4358-3205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Coastal Shrines of Odisha and Maritime Networks in the Bay of Bengal
Sea travel was fraught with peril and danger in early historical and medieval times, and not surprisingly, from an early period, a saviour or saviouress from sea danger was part of the Indic cultural tradition. First, in Buddhism in the form of Avalokiteśvara and Tārā, but later in Hinduism, the protective saviour deities emerged in the Indian Subcontinent, including in the eastern seaboard region of Odisha. The coastal shrines in the Indian Ocea…
Continuity and change in the sacred landscape of the Buddhist site of Udayagiri, Odisha
External forms and internal materiality of stupas underwent changes over centuries, and how these changes also altered the sacred landscape of a Buddhist site is the subject matter of the chapter. Exploring the practices of the worship of the stupa at the site of Udayagiri in particular and Lalitagiri and Ratnagiri in general in Odisha, the present chapteranalyses the transformation of material contents and form of stupas - from that of containin…
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Continuity and change in the sacred landscape of the Buddhist site of Udayagiri, Odisha
External forms and internal materiality of stupas underwent changes over centuries, and how these changes also altered the sacred landscape of a Buddhist site is the subject matter of the chapter. Exploring the practices of the worship of the stupa at the site of Udayagiri in particular and Lalitagiri and Ratnagiri in general in Odisha, the present chapteranalyses the transformation of material contents and form of stupas - from that of containin…
Coastal Shrines of Odisha and Maritime Networks in the Bay of Bengal
Sea travel was fraught with peril and danger in early historical and medieval times, and not surprisingly, from an early period, a saviour or saviouress from sea danger was part of the Indic cultural tradition. First, in Buddhism in the form of Avalokiteśvara and Tārā, but later in Hinduism, the protective saviour deities emerged in the Indian Subcontinent, including in the eastern seaboard region of Odisha. The coastal shrines in the Indian Ocea…
Buddhism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bay (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 work)