Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism write by Wendy Doniger. This book was released on 1988. Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism
Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism write by . This book was released on 1988. Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism
Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism write by . This book was released on 1990-10-15. Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
Hindu Primary Sources
Hindu Primary Sources - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hindu Primary Sources write by Carl Olson. This book was released on 2007. Hindu Primary Sources available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together texts from a variety of sectarian traditions, this reader provides the broadest selection of primary source Hindu literature available to date. The volume is divided into two major parts. The first section presents selections that explore major themes in classical Sanskrit traditions, including those in the Vedic, Upanisadic, and Dharma literatures, as well as the classical philosophical-religious schools. The second part includes selections that highlight the sectarian and devotional movements related to major deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Rama, Sant, Tantra, and the goddess figures. In addition to a general introductory chapter on Indian literature, each major section is introduced by an essay that places the selections within the context of Hindu history. This comprehensive reader stands on its own as an indispensable anthology of original textual sources for courses in Hinduism, while also serving as a companion volume to the text The Many Colors of Hinduism: A Thematic-Historical Introduction.
Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition
Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition write by Knut A. Jacobsen. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salvific space, and looks at how it became a central feature of Hinduism. Arguing that salvific power of place became a major dimension of Hinduism through a development in several stages, the book analyses the historical process of how salvific space and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition developed. It discusses how the traditions of salvific space exemplify the decentred polycentrism that defines Hinduism. The book uses original data from field research, as well as drawing on main textual sources such as Mahābhārata, the Purāṇas, the medieval digests on pilgrimage places (tīrthas), and a number of Sthalapurāṇas and Māhātmyas praising the salvific power of the place. By looking at some of the contradictions in and challenges to the tradition of Hindu salvific space in history and in contemporary India, the book is a useful study on Hinduism and South Asian Studies.
