Purāṇa Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina TextsIn this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Purāṇas, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Purāṇas. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytellers. |
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Contents
The Transparent Text Purdnic Trends in the Brhaddevata | 3 |
Echoes of the Mahabharata Why is a Parrot the Narrator of the Bhagavata Purana and the Devlbhagavata Purana? | 31 |
The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana | 59 |
From South to North and Back Again | 83 |
Purdnā as Brahminic Ideology | 85 |
On Folk Mythologies and Folk Pur anas | 101 |
Remaking a Purāna The Rescue of Gajendra in Polands Telugu Mahabhagavatamu | 121 |
Information and TransformationTwo Faces of the Puranas | 159 |
From Hindu to Jaina and Back Again | 183 |
An Overview of the Jaina Purānas | 185 |
Jaina Purānas A Purānic Counter Tradition | 207 |
Notes | 251 |
| 295 | |
Contributors | 317 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Purāṇa Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Editor | Wendy Doniger |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0791413810, 9780791413814 |
| Length | 331 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Hinduism / General Religion / Jainism |
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