From Ogress to Goddess Hariti
Author | : Madhurika K. Maheshwari |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Hārītī (Buddhist deity) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Madhurika K. Maheshwari |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Hārītī (Buddhist deity) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Natasja Bosma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9492444682 |
This book deals with the early development of Śaivism in ancient Dakṣiṇa Kosala, the region that roughly corresponds to the modern state of Chhattisgarh, plus the districts of Sambalpur, Balangir and Kalahandi of Odhisha (formerly Orissa). At the end of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh century, this region was under the control of the Pāṇḍava king Śivagupta alias ‘Bālārjuna’ hailing from Śrīpura (the modern village of Sirpur), who was a great patron of religion. Epigraphical evidence, supported by archaeological remains, has shown that by the time of Śivagupta’s reign, which lasted for at least fifty-seven years, Dakṣiṇa Kosala was already a rich center of early Śaivism. In the context of this setting the following research questions were formulated: what circumstances fostered the rise and development of Śaivism in this area, and did the Skandapurāṇa, an important and contemporaneous religious scripture, play any role in that development? An answer to these questions would not only shed light on the religious processes at work in Dakṣiṇa Kosala, but would also touch upon the interplay of political, social, economic and geographical factors.
Author | : Daniel Michon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317324587 |
This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.
Author | : Rebecca Harrison |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0648706621 |
Author | : Santi Rozario |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134471343 |
Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
Author | : Sree Padma |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199325049 |
This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present. The antiquity and the evolution of these goddess traditions are illustrated and documented with the help of archaeological reports, literary sources, inscriptions and art. Tracing the symbols and images of goddess into the brahmanical (Saiva and Vaisnava), Buddhist, and Jaina religious traditions, the book argues effectively how and with what motivations goddesses and their symbolizations were appropriated and transformed. The book also examines the evolution of popular Hindu goddesses such as Durga and Kali, discussing their tribal and agricultural backgrounds. It also deals extensively with how and in what circumstances women are deified and shows how these deified women cults share characteristics with the village goddesses.
Author | : Dr. Jyothi Susan Abraham (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) Dr. Kavitha Gopalakrishnan (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) Ms. Meera Elizabeth James (Assistant Professor, Baselius College, Kottayam) |
Publisher | : Co-Text Publishers |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2022-02-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 8195225349 |
Author | : Thomas B. Coburn |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Goddesses |
ISBN | : 9788120805576 |
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 | : Martin Lerner |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870994018 |
Author | : Tan Chung |
Publisher | : Gyan Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1998-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788121206174 |
An anthology of 40 Indian authors that parades various Indian perspectives on China, her civilization, history, society and development. It is a fruition of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) where Sino-Indian studies is a special window. A scholarly work.