The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devi as Corpse

ISBN-13: 9781138480186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 154 str.

Anway Mukhopadhyay

Opis

This book explores the figurations of the Goddess as corpse in several Hindu puranic and Shakta-tantric texts, popular practices, folk belief systems, legends and various other cultural phenomena based on this motif.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Human Death, the Divine Corpse 2. Reinterpreting the Myth of Sati: The Devoted Husband and the Corpse of His Wife 3. Dismemberment as Pluralization: The Scattering of Sati’s Body Parts and the Self-Pluralization of Shiva 4. The Shakti Pithas: The Active Corpse, the Immanent Shakti and the Sacred Geography of Shaktism 5. Shava Sadhana: Who Is the Corpse? Shiva or Shakti? 6. Placing the Devi’s Corpse on the Shore of a Thousand Streams: A Multicultural and Comparativist Reading of the Devi as Corpse 7. Shava-rupa and Vishva-rupa: The Corpse Form and the Cosmic Form of the Devi Appendix I: A Brief Outline of the Narrative of Sati in the Mahabhagavata Upapurana Appendix II: The Narrative of Sati in the Brihaddharmapurana: A Summary Appendix III: An Outline of the Narrative of Sati in Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal Kavya

O autorze

Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at the University of Burdwan, India.