The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
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The Vārāṇasīmāhatmya of the Bhairavaprādurbhāva
A Twelfth-Century Glorification of Vārāṇasī
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 148
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2021
Status : Available
19,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855392431
Width : 17 cm
Height : 24 cm
Weight : 0.38 kg
Number of pages : 194
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org
Geography : India
Language : English, Sanskrit
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Description :
IV+190 p.
Abstract
The city of Vārāṇasī in North India is one of the most sacred Hindu places. Its unique location on the banks of the Gaṅgā adds to its special claims of holiness. These claims found expression in an extensive body of literature called Māhātmyas, texts composed in Sanskrit with the specific aim of promoting the “greatness” (māhātmya) of the town through the narration of tales of origin of individual sites. The present study presents a little-known Vārāṇasīmāhātmya which has survived in a unique compendium of such Māhātmyas in a palm-leaf manuscript in Nepal. It contains a critical edition of the text with an introduction & annotated English synopsis. In making this material available, this study aims to contribute to an understanding of the emplacement of Brahmanical Hinduism, in particular Śaivism.
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