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Purāṇa perennis : reciprocity and transformation in Hindu and Jaina texts / edited by Wendy Doniger. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puranas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Puranas.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 331 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1993.
- Contents:
- The transparent text / Laurie L. Patton
- Echoes of the Mahābhārata / Wendy Doniger
- The scrapbook of undeserved salvation / Wendy Doniger
- Purāṇa as Brahminic ideology / Velcheru Narayana Rao
- On folk mythologies and folk Purāṇas / A.K. Ramanujan
- Remaking a Purāṇa / David Shulman
- Information and transformation / Friedhelm Hardy
- An overview of the Jaina Purāṇas / John E. Cort
- Jaina Purāṇas / Padmanabh S. Jaini.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-0136-1
- 0-585-06921-2
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