In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in the Marka¿¿eya Pura¿a, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Marka¿¿eya Pura¿a privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devi), the Sun (Surya), Manu and Marka¿¿eya himself are paragons.

This book features a salient discovery in Sanskrit narrative text: just as the Marka¿¿eya Pura¿a houses the Devi Mahatmya glorifying the supremacy of the Indian Great Goddess,...