1. Religious Landscape, Lineage & Politics 300-700 CE

2. I. Land grants & agricultural development II. Land grants and state benefits III. Religious elites & land grants IV. Puranic traditions V. Dharmasastra VI. Temples & monasteries: social space VII. Temples & monasteries: protective space VIII. Human time & cosmic time IX. Vishnu Purana X. Mahavamsa

3. I. Land grants & agricultural development Indirect development Grants to individuals & families Grants to religious specialists

4. II. Land grants & state benefits State control Landholder intermediaries Economic expansion Decentralized social service Patron-client relations Image of the patron

5. III. Religious elites & land grants Brahmans/brahmins Shramanic teachers Jain & Buddhist monastics

6. IV. Puranic traditions Siva, Vishnu, Brahma, Durga, Lakshmi Vedic antecedents & local cults Purana texts Temple spaces Sacrifice as ritual gift in temple Purification & knowledge in ritual act

9. V. Dharmashastra Treatises on social order Codifications re: varna, age, gender Religious & social diversity Social & cosmic order

10. VI. Temples & monasteries as social space Perform authority Status & patronage Networking Pleasure & recreation

13. VII. Temples & monasteries: protective space Access points to divine or suprahuman power Signs & traces of the divine Signs & traces of the shramanic teachers

17. VIII. Human time & cosmic time Origin stories Families & devotional communities Arguments for lineage & inheritance Arguments for human history & cosmic order

18. IX. Vishnu Purana 7-10 c. CE History of universe Biography of Vishnu Histories & predictions of kings Arguments for social order Mapping landscape for ritual & pilgrimage

20. X. Mahavamsa Late 5th c. CE History of Buddhist tradition History of royal lineage in Lanka (Sri Lanka) History of potent traces of Buddha Mapping landscape for ritual & pilgrimage