Devī-māhātmya : the crystallization of the goddess tradition

Author(s)

• Coburn, Thomas B.
• Ingalls, Daniel Henry Holmes

Bibliographic Information

Devī-māhātmya : the crystallization of the goddess tradition

Thomas B. Coburn ; with a foreword by Daniel H.H. Ingalls

Motilal Banarsidass, 1988

Note

First ed. published in 1984

Bibliography: p. [332]-351

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Devi Mahatmya is an account on the Goddess in Sanskrit and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present-day. It is this that the present volume accomplishes.

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Details

• NCID: BA07899196
• ISBN:
  • 8120805577
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 359 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL1140.4.M376
  • DC19 : 294.5/925
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Puranas. Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa. Devīmāhātmya -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • LCSH : Goddesses, Hindu