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Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement = The Skandapurāṇa Project
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: Hans Bakker

The Skandapurāṇa offers an unprecedented glimpse into the development of Śiva worship and his mythology. This Sanskrit Purāṇa, long considered lost, was known only obliquely from testimonia in digests of Brahminical customs and social regulations. Transmitted to us in several palm leaf manuscripts from Nepal—including the oldest known dated Purāṇa manuscript (810 CE)—as well as pa…

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9789004461031
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316 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV = Adhyāyas 70 – 95. Start of the Skanda and …
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Yuko YokochiPeter Bisschop

Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the Man-Lion (Narasiṃha), the birth of Skanda, the birth of Andhaka, and Hiraṇyākṣa’s battle with the gods culminating in his victory and capture of the Eart…

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978900438351
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384 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Groningen Oriental Studies, Supplement, Volume: 5
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The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Edition 1)
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Cerulli, Anthony

The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India’s classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurved…

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9780520383555, 9780520383555
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294.5 CER p
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Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet - Studies in the Cultural History of India
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Teye Bakker, Hans

The selected and revised articles in this volume by Hans Bakker deal with Indian culture, religion and history: Hinduism, epigraphy, archaeology, iconography in combination with Sanskrit textual studies. The studies focus on the Skandapurana, Vakataka—Gupta history, Ramtek (Ramagiri), Mansar, Ayodhya, Benares, pilgrimage and holy places (tirtha). Readership: All interested in the cultural his…

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9789004412071
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