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Religious process : the Puranas and the making of a regional tradition / Kunal Chakrabarti.
Van Pelt Library BL1153.7.B4 C535 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chakrabarti, Kunal.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puranas.
- Brahmanism--India--Bengal.
- Brahmanism.
- India--Bengal.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 368 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Texts and traditions: the Bengal Puranas
- Cultural interaction and religious process
- The diffusion of Brahmanism and the transformation of Buddhism
- Appropriation as a historical process: the cult of the goddess
- Vratas: the transmission of Brahmanical culture
- The making of regional tradition of Bengal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195649893
- OCLC:
- 42578728
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