[PDF.82wn] Encountering the Goddess: a Translation of the Devi-mahatmya and a Study of Its Interpretation

Encountering the Goddess: a Translation of the Devi-mahatmya and a Study of Its Interpretation

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 | #573707 in Books |  State University of New York Press |  1991-04-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.62 x6.00l,.89 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| book of mantras|By Eric Mueller|Good little book of mantras.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five stars for the translation of this classic text. ...|By Shankara Deva|Five stars for the translation of this classic text. Three stars for the publication itself as this is a Rs. 400 Indian edition selling for US| |"Encountering the Goddess is likely to be the standard scholarly translation for years to come."--C. Mackenzie Brown, Trinity University|About the Author||Thomas B. Coburn is Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies

Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devi-Mahatmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it t...

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