A priest's guide for the great festival : Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
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A priest's guide for the great festival : Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
（South Asia research）
Oxford University Press, 2010
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In English and Sanskrit; includes translation from Sanskrit
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The Mahotsavavidhi, a twelfth-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Saiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival" for the god Siva. The author, Aghorasiva, is one of the most esteemed and influential authors in the Saiva Siddhanta school, and his lengthy work on ritual procedures, Kriyakramadyotika, (of which the Mahotsavavidhi is a part), is by all accounts the Agama work most employed by modern temple
priests and pious Saivas in their practice of worship. Richard Davis's translation of this important text is the first translation into a European language of any medieval work on temple festivals. Because the text was intended for an expert audience of working twelfth-century priests, Aghorasiva employs a highly technical
idiom. For that reason, Davis annotates his translation extensively with explanations and expansions drawn from other Agama works. There have been numerous studies of temple festivals and processions based on ethnographic observations and on recent historical data, but the historical study of this dramatic religious practice during earlier periods has relied on speculation. Davis's groundbreaking volume will provide a new foundation for the study of the history of South Indian temple festivals
as a cultural practice.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Tables and Diagrams
- Notes on Text, Author and Translation
- Introduction
- Translation
- References
- Tables and Diagrams
- Text (in devanagari)
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