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Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya

Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya

Schwarz Linder, Silvia

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Hindu Studies

Asian American StudiesGeneral SociologyHinduism

ISBN10: 0367277034
ISBN13: 9780367277031
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 1 2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book on the Tripurārahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Śākta literature, is a study of the Śrīvidyā and Śākta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages.

Associated with the religious tradition known as Śrīvidyā and devoted to the cult of the Goddess Tripurā, the text was probably composed between the 13th and the 16th century CE. The analysis of its narrative parts addresses questions about the relationships between Tantric and Purāṇic goddesses. The discussion of its philosophical and theological teachings tackles problems related to the relationships between Sākta and Śaiva traditions. The stylistic devices adopted by the author(s) of the work deal uniquely with doctrinal and ritual elements of the Śrīvidyā through the medium of a literary and poetic language. This stylistic peculiarity distinguishes the Tripurārahasya from many other Tantric texts, characterized by a more technical language.

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