The Cult of Draupadi (On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess) - Alf Hiltebeitel - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226340470 - October 8, 1991
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The Cult of Draupadi (On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess) 1st edition

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This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual, and dramatic forms. Draupadi, the chief heroine of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, takes on many unexpected guises in her Tamil cult, but her dimensions as a folk goddess remain rooted in a rich interpretive vision of the great epic. By examining the ways that the cult of Draupadi commingles traditions about the goddess and the epic, Alf Hiltebeitel shows the cult to be singularly representative of the inner tensions and working dynamics of popular devotional Hinduism.

472 pages, xxii, 534 p., 38 halftones, 15 line drawings, 6 tables, 6 maps; xxii, 534 p., 38 halftone

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Released October 8, 1991
ISBN13 9780226340470
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 472
Dimensions 37 × 236 × 161 mm   ·   896 g
Language English  

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