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Indian Mother Goddess (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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Indian Mother Goddess (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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...you have not only collected a great deal of very important
material but have also organized them wonderfully well and this
from a carefully worked out sociological approach. This has given
us a really fine study in comparative religion, which you have
brought a modern mind to work upon. Niharranjan Ray, renowned
Indologist, on the first edition. Encouraged by the reception the
first edition received, the author expanded its scope and coverage
and the second edition included the following chapters:
Introduction; The Mothers: Forms of the Cult; Mother Goddesses in
Literary and Mythological Records; Mother Goddesses in Archaeology;
and Mother Goddesses and the Advanced Religious Systems. In
addition, there were three appendices, viz., Regional Distribution
of the Goddess Cult; The Female-Dominated Societies; and Fertility
Rites as the Basis of Tantricism. To further enrich the work two
more appendices, viz., The Realm of Kamakhya, and Important Puranic
Goddesses, along with an updated bibliography have been added in
the present (Third) edition. The study, a standard work on the
subject, correlates the cult of Indian Mother Goddess with similar
cults found in different parts of the world. It reveals interesting
historical processes working behind the origin and development of
the cult. It further highlights its popularity among the masses,
specially among the lower order, its functional role in space and
time and its entry into the so called higher forms of religious
systems of India and abroad. The study is marked by the authors
accent on comparative treatment and on the social basis of
religious ideas and deft handling of a bewildering variety of
sources.
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