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The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth - Power, Preservation and Mirrored Mahatmyas in the Markandeya Purana (Hardcover)
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The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth - Power, Preservation and Mirrored Mahatmyas in the Markandeya Purana (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian
Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in
the Markandeya Purana, this book argues for an ideological
ecosystem at work in the Markandeya Purana privileging worldly
values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devi), the Sun (Surya),
Manu and Markandeya himself are paragons. This book features a
salient discovery in Sanskrit narrative text: just as the
Markandeya Purana houses the Devi Mahatmya glorifying the supremacy
of the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, it also houses a Surya
Mahatmya, glorifying the supremacy of the Sun, Surya, in much the
same manner. This book argues that these mahatmyas were
meaningfully and purposefully positioned in the Markandeya Purana,
while previous scholarship has considered this haphazard
interpolation for sectarian aims. The book demonstrates that
deliberate compositional strategies make up the Saura-Sakta
symbiosis found in these mirrored mahatmyas. Moreover, the author
explores what he calls the "dharmic double helix" of Brahmanism,
most explicitly articulated by the structural opposition between
pravrtti (worldly) and nivrtti (other-worldy) dharmas. As the first
narrative study of the Surya Mahatmya, along with the first study
of the Markandeya Purana (or any Purana), as a narrative whole,
this book will be of interest to academics in the field of
Religion, Hindu Studies, South Asian Studies, Goddess Studies,
Narrative Theory and Comparative Mythology.
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