The Footsteps of Vishnu

This book is designed to be accessible and comprehensive in a way that other introductions to the Hindu tradition are not, maintaining an appealing narrative and holding the reader's interest in the unfolding sequence of ideas through time and place. The overarching organizational principle is a historical narrative largely grounded in archaeological information. Historic places and persons are fleshed out as actors in a narrative about the relation of the sacred to ordinary existence as it is mediated through arts, sciences, rituals, and philosophical ideas.