The Puranic World Environment Gender Ritual and Myth
Nath, Vijay
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Book ID : 34450
ISBN-10 : 81-7304-801-0 / 8173048010
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7304-801-2 / 9788173048012
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2009
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
The essays collected in this book pertains to changes in Indian society and religion during the later half of first millennium AD when the major Puranas were being compiled. The preiod represents a watershed in Indian history, for it marked a transition from a commercially viable economic order to a closed feudal economy. The social and religious dimensions of the brahmanical system were particularly impacted by such a transition resulting in some innovative forms of restructuring. It has been the purpose behind most of the present articles to reassess and utilize the available puranic evidence for getting fresh insights into the rationale changes in material culture, awareness and mode of dealing with environmental issues, gender based differentiation, recent rirual formations such as Mahadana and Tirthas as well as the utilization of myth as a mode of expresing historical reality.
