{"product_id":"devi-mahatmya-the-crystallization-of-the-goddes-tradition","title":"Devi Mahatmya: The Crystallization of the Goddes Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Devi-Mahatmya is well-known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. It is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eThe central task here is to explore how an anonymous Sanskrit text\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003earticulates a view of ultimate reality as feminine when there is virtually\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eno precedent in the Sanskrit tradition for such a view. To accomplish this\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003etask, an appropriate method of scriptural analysis is developed. This\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003einvolves an examination of Hindu understanding of the Puranas in general,\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eand of the Devi-Mahatmya in particular, along with consideration of several\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003erecent scholarly discussions, in India and elsewhere. Subsequently, a\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ecomprehensive inquiry into the Goddess's epithets in this text is\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eundertaken, followed by examination of the earlier history of the myths\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ethat the Devi-Mahatmya associates with her. The study culminates in\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003etranslations of the text's hymns, which are annotated so as to indicate the\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003esynthesis that is here being accomplished. The resulting illumination of\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eSanskritized form of Goddess worship is what Daniel H.H. Ingalls calls in\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ehis Foreword \"a notable scholarly achievement.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReview(s)\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author(s)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTHOMAS B. COBURN is a Professor of Religious Studies at St. Lawrence\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eUniversity, New York, where he also currently serves as Vice President of\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ethe University and Dean of Academic Affairs. In addition to Devi Mahatmya,\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ehe is the author of Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devi\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eMahatmya and A Study of Its Interpretation, as well as numerous articles on\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIndian and comparative topics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLBD PUBLICATION","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51272697479466,"sku":"CRAZY-9789394201576","price":35.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/1218\/4618\/files\/39.jpg?v=1773919174","url":"https:\/\/crazyshelf.com\/products\/devi-mahatmya-the-crystallization-of-the-goddes-tradition","provider":"Crazyshelf.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}