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The iconic female : goddesses of India, Nepal, and Tibet / edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Clayton, Vic., Australia : Monash University Press, c2008.Description: xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781876924669 (pbk.)
  • 1876924667 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 202.114 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2015.G6 I26 2008
Contents:
Contextualising the goddess / Ian Mabbett and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Archaeology of the goddess: an Indian paradox / Angelo Andrea Di Castro -- Pārvatī as creator of māyā or victim of māyā: the role of Gaṇeśa's mother in the Gaṇeśapurāṇa / Greg Bailey -- When Reṇukā was not a goddess / Rashmi Desai -- The Lajjāgaurī: mother, wife, or yoginī / Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Devī and tantric practice / John R. Dupuche -- The ḍākinī in Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman -- Devī's lion herders: bards and bardic goddesses and the moral regulation of power in late-medieval Rajasthan / Max Harcourt -- Songs in the presence of Mammai Mātājī / Effy George -- The Khāḍādevī Temple of modern Mumbai: communal harmony and the Koḷī goddess / Marika Vicziany and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat.
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Frykenberg Collection ARCH FRBC 294.511 B222I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 045858

"Monash Asia Institute"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.

Contextualising the goddess / Ian Mabbett and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Archaeology of the goddess: an Indian paradox / Angelo Andrea Di Castro -- Pārvatī as creator of māyā or victim of māyā: the role of Gaṇeśa's mother in the Gaṇeśapurāṇa / Greg Bailey -- When Reṇukā was not a goddess / Rashmi Desai -- The Lajjāgaurī: mother, wife, or yoginī / Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Devī and tantric practice / John R. Dupuche -- The ḍākinī in Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman -- Devī's lion herders: bards and bardic goddesses and the moral regulation of power in late-medieval Rajasthan / Max Harcourt -- Songs in the presence of Mammai Mātājī / Effy George -- The Khāḍādevī Temple of modern Mumbai: communal harmony and the Koḷī goddess / Marika Vicziany and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat.

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