Heidelberg University Publishing

Sacred Sites of South Asia Series is an open access and print-on-demand series of publications by the project “Hinduistische Tempellegenden in Südindien / Hindu Temple Legends in South India” (HTL) of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the Pondicherry Centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient. The project deals with the multiform transmission of the plethora of myths about South Indian sacred sites, especially Kanchipuram. The importance of sacred spaces for South Indian religiosity is unmistakable in these narratives, which are expressed not only in texts but also in iconography, inscriptions and temple architecture, as well as in other forms of material culture, in rituals, and in oral retellings. This series publishes relevant research — in open access and print-on-demand — including editions, translations, and philological studies of individual texts and text corpora, as well as studies on their contexts and anthologies. The aim is to gather different disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches — Indology, Ethno-indology, linguistics, history, anthropology, religious studies, as well as digital humanities or related disciplines. The editors are Ute Hüsken and Dominic Goodall.