Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa : Changing Forms and the Becoming of a Deity in Indian Religious Traditions / Marcus Schmücker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmücker, Marcus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hindu symbolism.

Nārāyaṇa (Hindu deity).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 pages)

Other Title:

Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2024.

Summary:

The contributions collected in this volume deal with the complex history of the Indian deity Viṣṇu-Nārāyana. This conception of God evolved in various traditions in India, especially in South India, during the first millennium CE. The history of this development is reconstructed here by various means, including philological exegesis, the history of ideas, and iconographic evidence.

Contents:

The plurality of god(s) as a poetic concept in the early Tamil invocation stanzas

Theology of Viṣṇu in the Vịṣnupurāṇa

Elements for an iconography of Nārāyaṇa in the Tamil land : Balarāma and a lost Vaiṣṇava world

Who is the Āl̲vār's supreme God?

Viṣṇsu, Vāsudeva, and Nārāyaṇa in the Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās

On the dialectic of language and mysticisicm in Vānamadatta's Saṃvitprakāśa

Evolution of deism and theism up to the 12th century : some considerations

Agency, surrender, and community : Piḷḷai Lokācārya's indwelling Lord

Veṅkaṭanātha on the God Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa as the ultimate ground.

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