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Pradyumna - Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara (Hardcover)
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Pradyumna - Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara (Hardcover)
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This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of
Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a
young man in mid-adolescence, Pradyumna is both a handsome double
of his demon-slaying father and the rebirth of Kamadeva, the God of
Love. Sanskrit epic, puranic, and kavya narratives of the 300-1300
CE period celebrate Pradyumna's sexual potency, mastery of illusory
subterfuges, and military prowess in supporting the work of his
avatara father. These materials reflect the values of an evolving
Brahminical and Vaisnava tradition that was deeply invested in the
imperatives of family, patrilines, the violent but necessary
defense of the social and cosmic order, and the celebration of
beauty and desire as a means to the divine. Pradyumna's evolving
narratives, almost completely absent from existing studies of Hindu
mythology, provide a point of access to the development of Krsna
bhakti and Vaisnava theism more broadly. Conversely, Jain sources
cast Pradyumna as an exemplary figure through whom a pointed
rejection of these values can be articulated, even while sharing
certain of their elementary premises. Pradyumna: Lover, Magician,
and Scion of the Avatara assembles these narratives, presents key
Sanskrit materials in translation and summary form, and articulates
the social, gender, and religious values encoded in them. Most
importantly, the study argues that Pradyumna's signature two-handed
maneuver-the audacious appropriation of a feminine partner, enabled
by the emasculating destruction of her demonic male
protector-communicates a persistent fantasy of male power expressed
in the language of a mutually implicating sex and violence.
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