Water Temple

A robust budding model of Balinese water temple networks

Ethnohistory, genetics and simulation are used to propose a new ‘budding model’ to describe the historical processes by which complex irrigation communities may come into existence. We review two alternative theories, Wittfogel’s top-down state-formation theory and common-pool resource management, and suggest that a budding model would better account for existing archaeological and ethnographic...

Cheryl Temple

The Temple Web Translator

New Web sites in foreign languages are appearing everyday, and language barriers threaten to atomize the World Wide Web into closed linguistic communities. The Temple project has developed an open multilingual architecture and software support for rapid development of machine translation systems for assimilation purposes. The targeted languages are those for which natural language processing an...

George Henry Temple

Physico-chemical Characteristics of the Water of Selected Theerthams of Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu

Rameswaram is one of the important pilgrim and tourist places in India. Ramanathaswamy temple is located in Rameswaram island. This temple attracts lakhs and lakhs of devotees and tourists including foreigners every year. The devotees and tourists come to this temple, take bath on the holy water of different theerthams. The physico chemical characters of many theerthams of the temple were analy...