Author: Frederick Eden PargiterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age
Author: Frederick Eden PargiterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
Author: Kurt A. RaaflaubPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118413113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
The Asiatic Quarterly Review
Author: The Periodical
Author: The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age with Introduction and Notes
Author: Frederick Eden PargiterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: W. Heffer & SonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Asiatic Quarterly Review
Author: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
List of members.
Women and the Puranic Tradition in India
Author: Monika SaxenaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429826397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
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.