Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 302
Pages: 302
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-15 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
This book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the development of saakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and prakr(materiality) f
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-25 - Publisher: SUNY Press
A fascinating look at women’s rituals honoring the god Krishna.
Language: en
Pages: 276
Pages: 276
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
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 illumin
Language: en
Pages: 345
Pages: 345
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SV
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion and environment in Hinduism.