From Ogress to Goddess Hariti
Author: Madhurika K. Maheshwari
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
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Dakṣiṇa Kosala
Author: Natasja Bosma
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9492444682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India
Author: Daniel Michon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-12
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1317324587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Samsara - The Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A journey through spirituality, religion, Nepal, Bali, Cambodia and India
Author: Rebecca Harrison
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-10-26
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0648706621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel with the author on a fascinating journey into samsara, the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, the religions of Buddhism and Hinduism that hold it as central and the rich cultures of Nepal, Bali, Cambodia and India. Does spirituality offer anything of value to a twenty-first century world and can spirituality exist apart from religion? Do quantum physics, mysticism or psychedelics offer any clues about what happens after death, consciousness, reality and ourselves? This book will get you thinking about your own life and death, and where they might fit in to the bigger picture.
Daughters of Hariti
Author: Santi Rozario
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1134471343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHariti 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.
Pandemic Reverberations and Altered Lives
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
Published: 2022-02-11
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 8195225349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVicissitudes of the Goddess
Author: Sree Padma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0199325049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Devī-Māhātmya
Author: Thomas B. Coburn
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9788120805576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Gods of Northern Buddhism
Author: Alice Getty
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780486255750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvaluable reference covers names, attributes, symbolism, representations of deities in Mahayana pantheon of China, Japan, Tibet, etc. 185 illus.
Gods, Heroes and their Story Tellers
Author: V. Hari Saravanan
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 837
ISBN-13: 9384391492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe can hear Urumula Naganna’s drum roll during the rendition of the Sri Akammagaru Kaviya. An oral tradition which is as old as the hills is captured in the book Gods, Heroes and their Storytellers. Do you know the story of how the Madiga community came to inherit the right to skin cattle carcass and produce leather articles? How are contemporary Folk Oral Literatures connected to the Ramayana and the Mahabharata? There are many such stories and tradition bearers who doggedly go on in spite of the onslaught of the digital media. The author here has tried his best in keeping these traditions alive by not only telling the stories but also by living with the story tellers themselves. The rich details give us a window to a world which is not only very far away for our everyday mundane existence but also makes us retrospect on what we are missing out. Each of the tradition bearers are different and so are their stories and the region to which they belong. These are not merely stories but a way of life for these oral narrators who are fast disappearing in today’s consumerist landscape. The need of the hour is to keep alive these traditions and the tradition bearers.
