Purāṇa perennis : reciprocity and transformation in Hindu and Jaina texts
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Purāṇa perennis : reciprocity and transformation in Hindu and Jaina texts
（Monumenta Indica series, no.3）
Indian Books Centre, 1993
1st Indian ed.
- alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
- hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-315) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Purāṇas, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Purāṇas. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytellers.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. From Veda and Epic to Purana and Upapurana
1 The Transparent Text: Puranic Trends in the Brhaddevata
Laurie L. Patton
2 Echoes of the Mahabharata : Why is a Parrot the Narrator of the Bhagavata Purana and the Devibhagavata Purana ?
Wendy Doniger
3 The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana
Wendy Doniger
Part II. From South to North and Back Again
4 Purana as Brahminic Ideology
Velcheru Narayana Rao
5 On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas
A. K. Ramanujan
6 Remaking a Purana: The Rescue of Gajendra in Potana's Telugu Mahabhagavatamu
David Shulman
7 Information and Transformation: Two Faces of the Puranas
Friedhelm Hardy
Part III. From Hindu to Jaina and Back Again
8 An Overview of the Jaina Puranas
John E. Cort
9 Jaina Puranas: A Puranic Counter Tradition
Padmanabh S. Jaini
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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