Devī

Author : John Stratton Hawley,Donna Marie Wulff
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120814916

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Devī by John Stratton Hawley,Donna Marie Wulff Pdf

The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali. They are local, like Vindhyavasini, and global, like Kali; ancient, like Saranyu, and modern, like "Mother India." The collection combines analysis of texts with intensive fieldwork, allowing the reader to see how goddesses are worshiped in everyday life. In these compelling essays, the divine feminine in Hinduism is revealed as never before--fascinating, contradictory, powerful.

Author : C. Mackenzie Brown
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791497739

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The Devī Gītā by C. Mackenzie Brown Pdf

This book provides a translation, with introduction, commentary, and annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the Goddess). It is an important but not well-known text from the rich SAakta (Goddess) tradition of India. The Devi Gita was composed about the fifteenth century C.E., in partial imitation of the famous Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Lord), composed some fifteen centuries earlier. Around the sixth century C.E., following the rise of several male deities to prominence, a new theistic movement began in which the supreme being was envisioned as female, known as the Great Goddess (Maha-Devi). Appearing first as a violent and blood-loving deity, this Goddess gradually evolved into a more benign figure, a compassionate World-Mother and bestower of salvific wisdom. It is in this beneficent mode that the Goddess appears in the Devi Gita. This work makes available an up-to-date translation of the Devi Gita, along with a historical and theological analysis of the text. The book is divided into sections of verses, and each section is followed by a comment explaining key terms, concepts, ritual procedures, and mythic themes. The comments also offer comparisons with related schools of thought, indicate parallel texts and textual sources of verses in the Devi Gita, and briefly elucidate the historical and religious background, supplementing the remarks of the introduction.

Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Goddesses
ISBN : 8120805577

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Devī-Māhātmya by Thomas B. Coburn Pdf

The Devi-Mahatmya is well-known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. It is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.The central task here is to explore how an anonymous Sanskrit text articulates a view of ultimate reality as feminine when there is virtually no precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this task, an appropriate method of scriptural analysis is developed. This involves an examination of Hindu understanding of the Puranas in general, and of the Devi-Mahatmya in particular, along with consideration of several recent scholarly discussions, in India and elsewhere. Subsequently, a comprehensive inquiry into the Goddess's epithets in this text is undertaken, followed by examination of the earlier history of the myths that the Devi-Mahatmya associates with her. The study culminates in translations of the text's hymns, which are annotated so as to indicate the synthesis that is here being accomplished. The resulting illumination of Sanskritized form of Goddess worship is what Daniel H.H. Ingalls calls in his Foreword a notable scholarly achievement.

Author : Hans Bakker,A. W. Entwistle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Goddesses, Hindu
ISBN : WISC:89052382736

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Devī by Hans Bakker,A. W. Entwistle Pdf

Author : P. G. Lalye
Publisher : Bombay : Popular Prakashan
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Puranas
ISBN : UVA:X000281257

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Studies in Devī Bhāgavata by P. G. Lalye Pdf

Critical study of the Devībhāgavatapurāna, Hindu liturgical work glorifying Durgo, form of Parvati, Hindu Goddess.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Devotional Literature, Hindu
ISBN : UVA:X000241752

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The Devī-māhātmyam Or Śrī Durgā-saptaśatī by Anonim Pdf

Classical hymn to Durgā, Hindu deity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789356292864

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Saundarya Lahari by Anonim Pdf

'A joyful rendition of an iconic text' - Arundhathi Subramaniam Saundarya Lahari is a popular Sanskrit hymn celebrating the power and beauty of Sakti, the primordial goddess. In one hundred verses, it underlines the centrality of the feminine principle in Indian thought. Attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, Saundarya Lahari is a valuable source for understanding tantric ideas. Every verse is associated with yantras and encoded mantras for tantric rituals, and specific verses in the hymn are considered potent for acquiring good health, lovers, and even poetic skills. Mani Rao's Saundarya Lahari is an inspired, lyrical translation that renders the esoteric immediate and the distant near.

Author : Mahesh Chandra Prasad Srivastava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : India
ISBN : UVA:X030040838

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Mother Goddess in Indian Art, Archaeology & Literature by Mahesh Chandra Prasad Srivastava Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCAL:B5082353

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The Oriental Anthropologist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791404455

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Encountering the Goddess by Thomas B. Coburn Pdf

Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form? One comes away from Coburn's work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a "text." The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating. Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of 'scripture,' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Devī-Māhātmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred.

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Gurus
ISBN : UOM:39015010483512

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Śrīla Prabhupāda-līlāmrta: In every town and village by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī Pdf

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Gurus
ISBN : UVA:X000602384

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Srīla Prabhupāda-līlāmrta by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī Pdf

A biography about guru and founder of the Hare Krishna movement, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda.

Author : Raj Balkaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429880681

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The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth by Raj Balkaran Pdf

The Sanskrit narrative text Devī Māhātmya, “The Greatness of The Goddess,” extols the triumphs of an all-powerful Goddess, Durgā, over universe-imperiling demons. These exploits are embedded in an intriguing frame narrative: a deposed king solicits the counsel of a forest-dwelling ascetic, who narrates the tripartite acts of Durgā which comprise the main body of the text. It is a centrally important early text about the Great Goddess, which has significance to the broader field of Purāṇic Studies. This book analyzes the Devī Māhātmya and argues that its frame narrative cleverly engages a dichotomy at the heart of Hinduism: the opposing ideals of asceticism and kingship. These ideals comprise two strands of what is referred to herein as the dharmic double helix. It decodes the symbolism of encounters between forest hermits and exiled kings through the lens of the dharmic double helix, demonstrating the extent to which this common narrative trope masterfully encodes the ambivalence of brāhmaṇic ideology. Engaging the tension between the moral necessity for nonviolence and the sociopolitical necessity for violence, the book deconstructs the ideological ambivalence throughout the Devī Māhātmya to demonstrate that its frame narrative invariably sheds light on its core content. Its very structure serves to emphasize a theme that prevails throughout the text, one inalienable to the rubric of the episodes themselves: sovereignty on both cosmic and mundane scales. The book sheds new light on the content of the Devī Māhātmya and contextualizes it within the framework of important debates within early Hinduism. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Religion, Hindu Studies, Goddess Studies, South Asian Studies, Narrative Studies and comparative literature.

Author : Jürgen Schaflechner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190850524

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Hinglaj Devi by Jürgen Schaflechner Pdf

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions for transliteration, transcription and sources -- Introduction -- The struggle over truth -- Hinglaj in perspective -- Historical Representations and recent changes -- (Un)necessary hardships in "getting there"--Change and perseverance -- Solidifying Hinglaj: Striving for a uniform tradition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Satyanarayan Rajaguru
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Inscriptions, Sanskrit
ISBN : UOM:39015024336862

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Invocatory Verses from Inscriptions: Śiva, Devī, and Gaṇeśa by Satyanarayan Rajaguru Pdf

Collection of verses in praise of Hindu deities and Jain religious leaders.