The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

A closer examination of these four issues will now be made, beginning with the last one, then dealing with the other three in th ...

Vedic values, used by brahmans for three main purposes: to make the bra ̄hman.ic ideology accessible to a wider public, to draw ...

was transmitting the text (e.g. the Ku ̄rmaappears to be a Pa ̄s ́upata reworking of what was originally a Pa ̄ñcara ̄tra text). ...

Maha ̄bha ̄gavatamu(Doniger 1993: 121–57). Friedhelm Hardy also draws upon sthalapura ̄n.as(“local Pura ̄n.as,” as he calls them ...

conferring a special status upon them. Sometimes the 18 “major Pura ̄n.as” are contrasted with 18 “minor Pura ̄n.as” (upapura ̄n ...

Primary creation, or cosmogony; 2. Secondary creation, or the destruction and renovation of worlds, including chronology; 3. Ge ...

to “the princes of the solar and lunar races” whom one would expect to come later. Yet the plain meaning ofvam.s ́ais “genealogy ...

to include the “five topics” in sufficient abundance. They were, he decided, “the partial and adulterated representatives of an ...

(e.g. Vis.n.u,Bha ̄gavata) or S ́aiva (e.g. S ́iva), but these are in the minority. The Matsyahas passages of Vais.n.ava and S ́ ...

time and space exist, and the accessible and gracious Lord whom worshippers may encounter in a loving relationship. It would thu ...

Not only is the kr.tayugasomewhere in the future, but there are pura ̄n.ic passages which say that moks.ais easier to attain in ...

the human and the divine, not in bonds of duty or domination, but in a rela- tionship of loving protection on the divine side an ...

Hindu Mythology(1976), O’Flaherty has shown how the analysis of Pura ̄n.ic myths can yield profounder and more sophisticated ans ...

Biardeau, Madeleine. 1981. Études de Mythologie Hindoue, Tome 1. Cosmogonies Puraniques.Paris: École Française d’Extrême Orient. ...

Textual Traditions in Regional Languages ...

CHAPTER 7 Tamil Hindu Literature Norman Cutler While the phrase “Tamil Hindu Literature” may appear to be simple and straightfor ...

Hindu Gods in Classical Tamil Poetry One of the great achievements of Tamil culture in the field of literature is the corpus of ...

It is important to stress that while some poems included in the can.kam anthologies contain references to these gods or to rites ...

united by their devotion, became a part of the Tamil social landscape. Also during this period the Tamil Vais.n.ava and S ́aiva ...

not unrelated, perspective, these poems can be viewed as a poetic corollary of a theology of embodiment. That is to say, just as ...