Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its InterpretationState University of New York Press, 1991/04/23 - 272 ページ Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form? One comes away from Coburn's work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a "text." The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating. Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of 'scripture,' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Devī-Māhātmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred. |
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... appears obvious that the religious traditions of the world have scriptures . Virtually all of the major traditions , and many of the minor , have left literary deposits , produced written documents , and the mere fact of their ...
... appears obvious that the religious traditions of the world have scriptures . Virtually all of the major traditions , and many of the minor , have left literary deposits , produced written documents , and the mere fact of their ...
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... appears to be great variety both within any one religious tradition in the assessment of a given religious document and across cultures in the way written documents are regarded , is it not incumbent upon us to take note of this variety ...
... appears to be great variety both within any one religious tradition in the assessment of a given religious document and across cultures in the way written documents are regarded , is it not incumbent upon us to take note of this variety ...
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... appear to be fully justifiable , and sufficient , only when the culture of the reader and the culture where the text originated ascribe similar significance to writing , and to the products of written expression . This may seem like a ...
... appear to be fully justifiable , and sufficient , only when the culture of the reader and the culture where the text originated ascribe similar significance to writing , and to the products of written expression . This may seem like a ...
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... appear , to the kind of under- standing that is produced by structuralist methods . 16 This is not the place for a full discussion of such limits , nor is such discussion essential to my purpose . I would , however , cite the remarks of ...
... appear , to the kind of under- standing that is produced by structuralist methods . 16 This is not the place for a full discussion of such limits , nor is such discussion essential to my purpose . I would , however , cite the remarks of ...
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... written documents , it would appear that the Devi - Māhātmya has been more like scripture in the Protestant sense than are the Purāņas in general precisely because it is compact , boundaried and 8 Encountering the Goddess.
... written documents , it would appear that the Devi - Māhātmya has been more like scripture in the Protestant sense than are the Purāņas in general precisely because it is compact , boundaried and 8 Encountering the Goddess.
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The Text in Translation | 29 |
The Legacy of a Text | 87 |
Encounter with the Text IThe Ritual and Philosophy | 99 |
Encounter with the Text IIThe Commentaries | 119 |
Encounters in the Contemporary World | 149 |
Translation of the Angas | 175 |
Notes | 195 |
Glossary | 231 |
Index | 247 |
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A. N. Jani Advaita Vedānta Agrawala Ambikā angas appears arrows Asuras auspicious avatāras Banerjea battle bhakti Bhaskararāya Brahman Caṇḍikā carita century chapter commentaries contemporary context Crystallization cult deity demons Devi Devi-Māhātmya devotion discus discussion divine Draupadi edition give the fame Give the form give the victory Goddess gods Goudriaan gunas Gupta hail Hiltebeitel Hindu Hindu Tantrism historical hymns Ibid Indian Indra interpretation Jani's Kālī Kavaca Kilaka kill the enemies king Krishna Lakṣmi lord Mackenzie Brown Mahābhārata Mahākālī Mahālakṣmi Mahāmāyā Mahāsarasvati Māhātmya Mahişa mantra Mārkaṇḍeya māyā Mother myth Nāgoji Bhaṭṭa names Nārāyaṇī Niśumbha Prādhānika Rahasya praise prakṛti Press protect Purāṇa Purāņas Purāņic queen recitation Religion religious ritual Śākta śakti Samkhya Sanskrit Saptasati Sarasvati sattva Scripture seer Śiva slain slay spear Śrī Śrīvidya Sūkta Sumbha sword Tantric Tantrism text's tradition translation understanding University unmanifest utterance Vaikṛtika Rahasya Varanasi Vedic verbal artifact verses Vişņu words worship