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Paperback Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation Book
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ISBN: 0791404463

ISBN13: 9780791404461

Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation

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Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is...

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