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Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation

Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation

Coburn, Thomas B.

Paperback

Series: Suny Hindu Studies

Hinduism

ISBN10: 0791404463
ISBN13: 9780791404461
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 2 1991
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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?

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