Breaking boundaries with the goddess : new directions in the study of Śāktism : essays in honor of Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya

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Breaking boundaries with the goddess : new directions in the study of Śāktism : essays in honor of Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya

edited by Cynthia Ann Humes, Rachel Fell McDermott

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index

Summary: Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, 1934-2001, Indian indologist; contributed articles

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This book draws together twelve Sakta interpreters from North America, Europe, and India to discuss the present state and future challenges of Studies of the South Asian Goddess. They focus on Sanskrit, Tamil, Bengali, and tribal languages, and they cover geographic areas from the north to the south of the subcontinent and beyond, including Tibet, and even parts of Central Asia that were once under Kusana rule. Their sources are wide-ranging: they investigate archaeological finds from the Indus Valley, sculptures recovered in robbers hordes in eastern India, and sites excavated by the Russians near Afghanistan. They read texts, including Vedas, Agamas, epics, Puranas, Tantras, medieval ritual digests, and glorifications; examine rituals, art, and social attitudes; and their fieldwork takes them to meet tribal Khonds, Gonds, Oraons, and Nagas, Bengali Tantric practitioners, and temple priests and devotees. Numerous goddesses find their way into the pages of this volume: the Vedic Viraj, Laksmi, Sita, Durga Mahisamardini, Kali, Korravi, tribal goddesses such as Tari Penu and Anna Kuari, the ten Mahavidyas, Jagaddhatri, various yaksinis, Vindhyavasini, and even goddesses whose names cannot be deciphered with our present knowledge. All of the contributors write in honor of the late Professor Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya (1934-2001), the Bengali master interpreter of Saktism, who mentored many of them and influenced the field tremendously, with his insistence that the study of ritual or text not to be divorced from a consideration of social institutions, particularly those derived from tribal culture, and his belief that the importance of women as ritual actors and purveyors of tradition not to be forgotten.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Engendering Alternative Power Relations: The Viraj in the Vedic Tradition
  • Once Upon a Time the Supreme Power: The Theological Rise & Fall of Laksmi in Pancaratra Scriptures
  • Sita Fights while Rama Swoons: A Sakta Perspective on the Ramayana
  • Traditions of Human Sacrifice in Ancient & Tribal India & their Relations to Saktism
  • Sitting on the Corpses Chest: The Tantric Ritual of Sava Sadhana & its Variations in Modern Bengal
  • Corpses, Severed Heads, & Sex: Reflections on the Dasamahavidyas
  • The Northernmost Representation of an Indian Goddess of Power
  • An Unnoticed Form of Devi from Bengal & the Challenges of Art Historical Analysis
  • A Festival for Jagaddhatri & the Power of Localized Religion in West Bengal
  • Shashibhusjan Dasguptas Lotus: Realizing the Sublime in Contemporary Tantric Studies
  • Magical Lovers, Sisters, & Mothers: Yaksini sadhana in Tantric Buddhism
  • The Power of Creation: Sakti, Women, & the Goddess
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index: List of Contributors.

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