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The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma

The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma

Collins, Brian

Hardcover

Series: Suny Hindu Studies

Literary CriticismComparative ReligionHinduism

ISBN10: 1438480393
ISBN13: 9781438480398
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Oct 1 2020
Pages: 333
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (Rāma with the Axe), an avatára of Viṣṇu with a much darker reputation.

The Other Rāma presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (Rāma with the Axe), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Katriya warrior caste in an extermination campaign frequently referred to as genocide by modern scholars. Compared to Rāma and Ka, the other human forms of Viṣṇu, Paraśurāma has a much darker reputation, with few temples devoted to him and scant worshippers. He has also attracted far less scholarly attention. But dozens of important castes and clans across the subcontinent claim Paraśurāma as the originator of their bloodline, and his mother, Reukā, is worshipped in the form of a severed head throughout South India.

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