Ph.D. Student Marija Grujovska

Marija completed  her BA in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna in 2016 and her MA in Cultural and Religious History of South Asia at Heidelberg University in 2020. In July 2022, she joined the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia as a doctoral candidate under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ute Hüsken. She is a researcher at the research unit "Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal", Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. 

Her dissertation, titled “Early-Śāha Period Royal Land Endowments: Documents on Tripureśvara Temple’s Guṭhi ”, examines the historical development of the administration and management of the Tripureśvara Mahādeva temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, from its establishment onward. Adopting a diachronic perspective, it integrates the critical study of historical documents concerning the temple and its associated guṭhi with anthropological fieldwork conducted at the site. By combining textual and ethnographic methodologies, the study offers new insights into the structures and agents that have sustained the temple over time—its administrative organization, economic foundations, and ritual life.