River and Goddess Worship in India: Changing Perceptions and Manifestations of Sarasvati

ISBN-13: 9780367886714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 148 str.

R. U. S. Prasad

Opis

The book examines Sarasvati’s origin, the course of her flow and the place of her disappearance in a holistic manner. Based on a close analysis of texts from the early Rig-Veda to the Brahmanas and the Puranas, it discusses different view-points in a balanced perspective and attempts to drive the discussions towards the emergence of a consensus

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Origin of the Vedic river Sarasvati – various theories

3. Sarasvati in ancient Indian texts- an over-view

4. Sarasvati in the Rig-Veda

5. Sarasvati in the Yajur-Veda and the Atharva-Veda

6. Sarasvati in the Brahmanas

7. Sarasvati and other deities in Vedic texts

8. Sarasvati and Vak

9. Sarasvati in the Mahabharata

10. Important pilgrimage sites (Tirthas) on Sarasvati and folklore associated with them

11. Sarasvati and the Puranas

12. Iconography of Sarasvati

13. Conclusions

O autorze

R. U. S. Prasad holds a Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He is currently an Associate in the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of two books on telecommunications and Rig-Vedic and Post-Rig-Vedic Polity.