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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism - Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys? (Hardcover, New)
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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism - Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys? (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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This book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological
concept of self-surrender - prapatti - in late 12th - 13th century
religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of South India. It
is a unique textual study, which shows that medieval sectarian
formation in its theological dimension is a fluid and ambivalent
enterprise, where conflict and differentiation are presaged on
"sharing," whether of a common canon, or two languages (Tamil and
Sanskrit), a common saint, a common corpus of rituals or of a
"meta-social" arena such as the temple itself.
Arguing that the core ideas of prapatti in these texts reveal the
description of a heterogeneous theological concept, its nature
dependent on the status of its practitioner, this book demonstrates
that this concept is theologically moulded by the emergence of new
literary genres, such as commentaries with hagiographical elements,
in this period. The author puts forward the idea that this original
heterogeneous understanding of prapatti is a majorcontributory
cause to the emergence of sectarian divisions among the
Shrivaishnavas, which lead to the eventual formation of two
sub-sects, the Tenkalai and the Vatakalai, who stand respectively,
for the "cat" and "monkey" theological positions.
The book contributes to a new, intellectual history of medieval
Indian religion with a specific emphasis on South Indian
Shrivaishnavism. It will be of interest to scholars of
Shrivaishnavism and Hindu and Indian Religious Studies.
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