When the Goddess was a Woman Mahabharata Ethnographies-- Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel. Volume 2.

Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all b...

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Main Author: Adluri, V.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Numen Book Series 132.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Mah > Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Mahābhārata.

Hinduism.

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Call Number: BL1138.26 .A35 2011

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Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material /
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Chapter One. Draupadī'S Hair /
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Chapter Two. Draupadī's Garments /
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Chapter Three. Śiva, The Goddess, And The Disguises Of The Pāṇḍavas And Draupadī /
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Chapter Four. Purity And Auspiciousness In The Sanskrit Epics /
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Chapter Five. The Folklore Of Draupadī: Sārīs And Hair /
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Chapter Six. Orders Of Diffusion In Indian Folk Religion /
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Chapter Seven. Draupadī Cult Līlās /
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Chapter Eight. Colonialist Lenses On The South Indian Draupadī Cult /
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Chapter Nine. Review Of Landscapes Of Urban Memory /
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Chapter Ten. Draupadī's Question /
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Chapter Eleven. Dying Before The Mahābhārata War: Martial And Transsexual Body-Building For Aravāṉ /
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Chapter Twelve. Hair Like Snakes And Mustached Brides: Crossed Gender In An Indian Folk Cult /
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Chapter Thirteen. Kūttāṇṭavar: The Divine Lives Of A Severed Head /
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Chapter Fourteen. Kūttāṇṭavar's Cross: Making That Young Bride, Whoever She Is, A Widow /
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Chapter Fifteen. The Indus Valley "Proto-Śiva": Reexamined Through Reflections On The Goddess, The Buffalo, And The Symbolism Of Vāhanas /
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Chapter Sixteen. Fathers Of The Bride, Fathers Of Satī: Myths Rites, And Scholarly Practices /
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Chapter Seventeen. Two Ways To Tell A Story: Ālhā In The Bhaviṣya Purāṇa /
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Chapter Eighteen. Boar And Twins: Comparing The Tulu Kōtị-Cennaya Pāḍdana And The Tamil Elder Brothers Story /
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Chapter Nineteen. On The Handling Of The Meat And Related Matters: Two South Indian Buffalo Sacrifices /
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Chapter Twenty. Transmitting Mahābhāratas: Another Look At Peter Brook /
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Bibliography /
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Index /
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