The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu GoddessMotilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 01.01.1992 - 232 Seiten supplemented by a commentary; both seek to emphasize how the teaching is |
Inhalt
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Initial Con | 97 |
Marriage as an Antidote to Sacrifice 112 Women as GoddessesGoddesses | 126 |
130 Marriage as Soteriological Act 134 The Order Marriage Brings | 135 |
Kinship Terms in Personal Devotion | 142 |
Devotion as Financial Contract 143 Devotion as Kinship Alliance 146 Sus | 163 |
Selected Sanskrit Names and Terms and Their Tamil | 197 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 209 |
INDEX | 227 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Academy Alakar Alakarkōvil alliance appears ascetic associated auspicious beautiful becomes Brahmā Brahmin breasts bride brothers-in-law caste celebrated celestials Chapter chariots Citrā Citra Festival city of Madurai Cōla context cross-cousin daughter deities devotees divine elephant episode example father female flowers garlands goddess gods golden graciously hair Himavat Hindu Hinduism holy human husband in-law Indra involved Jains jewels king's kinship terms Krsna lineage linga literary Lord Māci Street Madurai area Madurai temple Malayadhvaja male marry metaphor Minākși miraculously moon mother Murukan myth mythology Nandin northern occurs Pandya kingdom Pandya kings Parvati pavilion place-history poet priests procession Purāņa referred regarded relationship religious riage ritual events role royal rudras sacred marriage sacrifice sages Saiva samskāras Sanskrit sense shrine Śiva Siva's Śiva's Sacred Games snake son-in-law southern India spouse story Sundareśvara Tamil Tamil literature tion tradition transformed Ugra Vaigai River Vaisnava Vedas Vişnu wedding wife Wish-granting woman women worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 51 - The time is coming," declares the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,
Seite 94 - The total relationship of exchange which constitutes marriage is not established between a man and a woman, where each owes and receives something, but between two groups of men, and the woman figures only as one of the objects in the exchange, not as one of the partners between whom the exchange takes place.
Seite 51 - I will set my law within them and write it on their hearts; I will become their God and they shall become my people.
Seite 92 - The most immediate and complete, the total formula for that is 'cross-cousin marriage' of any description. In fact, what we are accustomed to call cross-cousin marriage is nothing but the perfect formula for perpetuating the alliance relationship from one generation to the next and so making the alliance an enduring institution - a very particular and queer name for a fact of a very general and logical character.
Seite 67 - I see it, myth regarded as a statement in words 'says' the same thing as ritual regarded as a statement in action. To ask questions about the content of belief which are not contained in the content of ritual is nonsense.
Seite 152 - beatific vision' without having had experiences which they would describe as such. They do so because they belong to a community and tradition of faith which contains authoritative members for whom the term does denominate a particular experience. There is an element of trust involved in relying on others whose experience is wider than one's own, yet in almost all areas of life this is the perfectly rational enterprise of using the wider resources of the community to extend one's own, and necessarily...
Seite 44 - MInatci's father, who was son of the founder of the city of Madurai. King Malayattuvaca Pantiyan and his queen were childless, and because their religious devotion and good works did not seem sufficient to change this sad state of affairs, they began offering a series of horse sacrifices. These, they hoped, would please the deities and bring them a son. Unfortunately, horse sacrifices are not always conducive to the births of sons, and so the elaborate rituals were continued until they reached the...
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