The goddess and the sun in Indian myth : power, preservation and mirrored Māhātmyas in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa
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書誌事項
The goddess and the sun in Indian myth : power, preservation and mirrored Māhātmyas in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa
（Routledge Hindu studies series）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-177) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in the Markandeya Purana, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Markandeya Purana privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devi), the Sun (Surya), Manu and Markandeya himself are paragons.
This book features a salient discovery in Sanskrit narrative text: just as the Markandeya Purana houses the Devi Mahatmya glorifying the supremacy of the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, it also houses a Surya Mahatmya, glorifying the supremacy of the Sun, Surya, in much the same manner. This book argues that these mahatmyas were meaningfully and purposefully positioned in the Markandeya Purana, while previous scholarship has considered this haphazard interpolation for sectarian aims. The book demonstrates that deliberate compositional strategies make up the Saura-Sakta symbiosis found in these mirrored mahatmyas. Moreover, the author explores what he calls the "dharmic double helix" of Brahmanism, most explicitly articulated by the structural opposition between pravrtti (worldly) and nivrtti (other-worldy) dharmas.
As the first narrative study of the Surya Mahatmya, along with the first study of the Markandeya Purana (or any Purana), as a narrative whole, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Religion, Hindu Studies, South Asian Studies, Goddess Studies, Narrative Theory and Comparative Mythology.
目次
Introduction: Goddess and King, Goddess and Sun
1. Synchronic Strategy
2. Mirrored Mahamtyas
3. The Story of Samjna
4. Mapping Markandeya
Conclusion: Paragons of Preservation
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