Tales for the Dying explores the centrality of death and dying in
the narrative of the Bhagavata-Purana, India's great text of
devotional theism, canonized as an integral part of the Vaisnava
bhakti tradition. The text grapples with death through an
imaginative meditation, one that works through the presence and
power of narrative. The story of the Bhagavata-Purana is spoken to
a king who is about to die, and it enables him to come to terms
with his own passing. The work does not isolate dying as an issue;
it treats it on many levels.
This book discusses how images of dying in the Bhagavata-Purana
relate to issues of language and love in the religious imagination
of India. Drawing on insights from studies in myth, literary
semiotics, and depth psychology, as well as from Indian
commentarial and aesthetic traditions, the author examines the
power of myth and narrative (storytelling or hari katha) and shows
how a detailed awareness of the Puranic imagination may lead to a
revisioning of some long-held presuppositions around Indian
religious altitudes toward dying. By casting Vaisnava bhakti
traditions and Puranic narrative in a fresh light, the mythic
imagination of the Puranas takes its place on the stage of
contemporary discourse on comparative mythology and literature.
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