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The iconic female : goddesses of India, Nepal, and Tibet

Title: The iconic female : goddesses of India, Nepal, and Tibet / edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett.
Publication: Clayton, Vic., Australia : Monash University Press, ©2008.

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xiv, 230 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

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Note

"Monash Asia Institute"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.

Contents

Contextualising the goddess / Ian Mabbett and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Archaeology of the goddess: an Indian paradox / Angelo Andrea Di Castro -- Pārvatī as creator of māyā or victim of māyā: the role of Gaṇeśa's mother in the Gaṇeśapurāṇa / Greg Bailey -- When Reṇukā was not a goddess / Rashmi Desai -- The Lajjāgaurī: mother, wife, or yoginī / Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Devī and tantric practice / John R. Dupuche -- The ḍākinī in Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman -- Devī's lion herders: bards and bardic goddesses and the moral regulation of power in late-medieval Rajasthan / Max Harcourt -- Songs in the presence of Mammai Mātājī / Effy George -- The Khāḍādevī Temple of modern Mumbai: communal harmony and the Koḷī goddess / Marika Vicziany and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat.

ISBN

9781876924669
1876924667

LCCN

2009293880

OCLC

ocn271824983
271824983
SCSB-1502151

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Princeton University Library