Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520040984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Presenting a subject rarely studied, the author shows there is a history of ideas about evil in Hinduism.
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520040984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Presenting a subject rarely studied, the author shows there is a history of ideas about evil in Hinduism.
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120803862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This work deals at length with various theories about relgion prevalent at the time when Megasthenes visited India very interesting and scholarly views have been put forth regarding investigations of Megasthenes their reliability and the reliability of his reporters.
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
Author: Wendy Doniger O'FlahertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Siva
Author: Wendy Doniger O'FlahertyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199727937
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range of Indian texts--Vedic, Puranic, classical, modern, and tribal--centering on the stories of the great ascetic, Siva, and his erotic alter ego, Kama.
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
Author: Wendy Doniger O'FlahertyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
A Hindu Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion
Author: Arvind SharmaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349207977
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Hindus
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594202056
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.
Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Purānic. Illustrated
Author: William Joseph WilkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu goddesses
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism
Author: Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226618471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"A wider range than usual of Sanskrit texts: not only interesting Vedic, epic, and mythological texts but also a good sampling of ritual and ethical texts. . . . There are also extracts from texts usually neglected, such as medical treatises, works on practical politics, and guides to love and marriage. . . . Readings from the vernacular Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil traditions [serve to] enrich the collection and demonstrate how Hinduism flourished not just in Sanskrit but also in its many mother tongues."—Francis X. Clooney, Journal of Asian Studies
The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth
Author: Raj BalkaranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000060357
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, and those glorifying the Sun, Sūrya, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devī), the Sun (Sūrya), Manu and Mārkaṇḍeya himself are paragons. This book features a salient discovery in Sanskrit narrative text: just as the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa houses the Devī Māhātmya glorifying the supremacy of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, it also houses a Sūrya Māhātmya, glorifying the supremacy of the Sun, Sūrya, in much the same manner. This book argues that these māhātmyas were meaningfully and purposefully positioned in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, while previous scholarship has considered this haphazard interpolation for sectarian aims. The book demonstrates that deliberate compositional strategies make up the Saura–Śākta symbiosis found in these mirrored māhātmyas. Moreover, the author explores what he calls the "dharmic double helix" of Brahmanism, most explicitly articulated by the structural opposition between pravṛtti (worldly) and nivṛtti (other-worldy) dharmas. As the first narrative study of the Sūrya Māhātmya, along with the first study of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (or any Purāṇa), as a narrative whole, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Religion, Hindu Studies, South Asian Studies, Goddess Studies, Narrative Theory and Comparative Mythology.