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Author : J.L. Shastri,S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788120838994
Author : Monika Saxena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429826399
This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Purāṇic traditions in ancient India – the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute – against the socio-religious milieu around CE 300–1000. Purāṇas (lit. ancient narratives) are brahmanical texts that largely fall under the category of socio-religious literature which were more broad-based and inclusive, unlike the Smṛtis, which were accessible mainly to the upper sections of society. In locating, identifying, and commenting on the multiplicity of the images and depictions of women’s roles in Purāṇic traditions, the author highlights their lives and experiences over time, both within and outside the traditional confines of the domestic sphere. With a focus on five Mahāpurāṇas that deal extensively with the social matrix Viṣṇu, Mārkaṇḍeya Matsya, Agni, and Bhāgavata Purāṇas, the book explores the question of gender and agency in early India and shows how such identities were recast, invented, shaped, constructed, replicated, stereotyped, and sometimes reversed through narratives. Further, it traces social consequences and contemporary relevance of such representations in marriage, adultery, ritual, devotion, worship, fasts, and pilgrimage. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, sociology, literature, and South Asian studies, as also the informed general reader.
Author : N. A. Deshpande,J. L. Shastri,Govardhan P.. Bhatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120806638
Author : J.L. Shastri,N. Gangadharan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788120838963
Author : Amos Nevo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462836888
Author : John Napier
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476602134
In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the Nath-Jogis, sing stories of kings who renounce their thrones to become wandering mendicants. They also sing of a god, Mahadeva, Shiva, who must abandon his world-renouncing life and marry, thus establishing the very caste that tells his story. This is the first detailed ethnomusicological study of the music of this caste, examining how the existential questions of the sung stories—of the conflict between loyalty to families or communities and the transcending desire to renounce the material world—are articulated in musical performances in which the caste’s own ethnography is inscribed. Discussing the relationship between the performed repertoire and the caste’s identity, the contexts of performance and ways in which familiar stories are effectively retold, the book offers a transcription, translation and musical and ethnographic analysis of one performance, by Kishori Nath, and shows how the questions the performances project are not merely speculative acts of self-identification but also challenges to audiences to consider their own responses.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 939251610X
Author : Jagdish Lal Shastri,Arnold Kunst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015018301948
Hindu mythological text.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120803442
Author : Jagdish Lal Shastri,Arnold Kunst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015032040068
Hindu mythological text.
Author : J. L. Shastri,Dr. G.V. Tagare
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788120838888
Author : Dr. G.P. Bhatt,Dr. N.A. Deshpande
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 3623 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788120839151
Author : John A. Grimes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438405018
Ganapati is the Hindu Lord of Beginnings, the Keeper of the Threshold, the Remover of Obstacles, Master of the Mind, Son of Siva, Elephant-headed, plump, and loveable. This book offers a wide range of information about Ganapati gathered from such diverse sources as hymns, poems, myths, shrines, practices, and theologies. It considers Ganapati's complexity: his transcendence of sectarian and territorial limits, his delayed but dramatic development into the religious pantheon, his paradoxical mythology, and his physical manifestation, an elephant's head on a human body. Ganapati: Song of the Self fosters an understanding from within a tradition. It presents a positive interpretation of the material and encourages an inner quest for spiritual truth.
Author : Oly Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000634990
This book looks at the representation and practice of chastity in selective ancient Indian texts. It studies how and when the concept originated and in what ways it was intertwined with the social, cultural, and economic notions of Indian society. Drawing on seminal Indian texts such as the MahāPurāṇas, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Sattasaī and the Jātakas, the volume delves into the social and reproductive rights of women through an examination of the norms of chastity, virginity, and Pātivratya, which were construed according to a patriarchal hierarchy of the society and implemented as a means of strengthening patriarchal authority. It also examines the interinfluence of various religious traditions that emerged on the very concept of chastity and the ideologies they later gave rise to. A comprehensive study of sexuality and gender in early India, the book will be indispensable to students, teachers, and researchers of gender studies, literature, women’s studies, women’s rights, feminism, South Asian studies, and social history of Ancient India.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786488940
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.