..., The Nāṭtyaśāstra … (op. cit.), I, Ch. XIV, “The Zones and the Local Usages.” 4 Ghosh, I, Ch. XX, “Ten Kinds of Play.” V. Raghavan, “Sanskrit Drama and Performance,” Journal of the Madras University ( 07 , 1957 ). 5 Raghavan V. , “The Bhagavata Mela Natakam,” reprinted from Journal...

...Joanne Punzo Waghorne The Triumph of the Goddess: The Canonical Models and Theological Visions of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa . By C. Mackenzie Brown . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1990 . xvi, 327 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Encountering the Goddess...

...Robert J. Del Bontà Epic Narratives in the Hoysaḷa Temples: The Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr and Amṛtapura . By Kirsti Evans . Studies in the History of Religions ( Numen Book Series). Edited by H. G. Kippenberg and E. T. Lawson . Volume LXXIV. Leiden...

...Jonathan Edelmann Krishna's Mandala: Bhagavata Religion and Beyond . By D. Dennis Hudson . Edited by John Stratton Hawley . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 298 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Dedicatory volumes...

... speculation about aboriginal rites and the Atharva Veda. The two remaining chapters are perhaps the most original and of the widest interest. Both explore the important and neglected political role of proto-Tantric or Tantric religion. Dennis Hudson reinterprets early Bhagavata iconography in the light...

... political role of proto-Tantric or Tantric religion. Dennis Hudson reinterprets early Bhagavata iconography in the light of the eighth-century Vaikuntha Perumal temple at Kanchipuram. He argues that the Bhagavata cult had already been systematized around a five-fold mandala structure by the second century...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahman Family in Vrindaban. By M A R G A R E T CASE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi, 167 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In a much beloved tenth-century Indian text, the Bhagavata Purana, Lord Vishnu is said to have incarnated...

... of the more philosophical parts of the Vedas and Brahmanas, notable Upanishadic passages, fairly representative passages from the Dharma literature, a few sections from Patafijali's yoga text, longish but readable condensations of the two epics and the Bhagavata Purana, extracts from the Glta, and finally...

... to this view, one cannot identify a single bhakti movement but rather there are “more independently constituted bhakti clusters” (p. 327). The story of bhakti making a transit from south to north is expressed in the personification of bhakti as a young woman, found in the Bhāgavata Māhātmya , a text...

..., for example, the aesthetic theory, presupposed but rarely explicit in the Bhagavata Purdna but developed quite explicitly by Vallabha; or about Vallabha's use of the Bbdgavata's view of the descent of Krsna as nirodha, "constraint," that is, the constraint of His grace toward his devotees. But perhaps what...

... literature, a few sections from Patafijali's yoga text, longish but readable condensations of the two epics and the Bhagavata Purana, extracts from the Glta, and finally, a less familiar field, a fairly large number (pp. 419^447) of prayers including in full the Thousand Names of Vishnu from the Mahabharata...

... beyond mere liberation to his highest reward, 'Entry into His Eternal Game' (Skt. nityalfldpravela)" (p. 40). Much more could be observed about, for example, the aesthetic theory, presupposed but rarely explicit in the Bhagavata Purdna but developed quite explicitly by Vallabha; or about Vallabha's use...

... of the Bhagavata Purdna." gali Hindus. These low-caste folk look up to He discusses the date and composition of this nonbrahmin Vaisnava teachers who form a basic text of the Krishna cult and reviews its discrete caste divided into five sub-castes. contents, finally considering its social message, Vaisnava...

..., 1995. x, 295 pp. Rs. 400, DM 124 (cloth). SRI-BHAGAVATA, Kundali Dasa, and Kundali Dasa, trans, and eds. Sri Bhagavata Sandarbha Narayana, Satya Dasa. Book I: of Srila Jiva Gosvami Prabhupada. Vrndavana: Jiva Institute for Vaisnava Studies, 1995. xxviii, 424 pp. Rs. 495 (cloth). SRIVASTAVA, Vivek...

... Rāmayana or the Tulsīdas Rām Carit Mānas and the portrayal of those episodes, or lack thereof, in Sagars's teleserial. Rādhā then becomes the focus of comparative analysis as she appears in medieval Krishnaite devotional poetry inspired by the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and in the modern teleserial Shri...

... of the following chapter (chapter 2). Three narratives from the Chāndogya Upaniṣad , the Bhāgavata Purāṇa , and the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa provide similar instances, generally, of the humbling of Indra's ego, though the ontological frameworks in which these narratives are situated are quite different. However...

... Image in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998) for anyone who wonders how spiritual hearing facilitates darśan in a specific religious tradition. Through knowledge of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and similar literatures that tell the story of Krishna's earthly career, the rasikas of Braj...

... (prakrti), the cause of creation (mdyd), and the active power of creation (sakti). In the Saiva and Vaisnava canon DevT is the consort of a male god and subordinate to his power. But in Sakta Puranas such as the DevT-Bhagavata Purana, following the lead of the DevT-Mahatmya, the supreme deity...

..., in an otherwise captivating essay, hinges his characterization of the Bhagavata's "monistic" bhakti on a passage invoking the "impersonal absolute" as Purusa, the Person (pp. 130 31). Hardy, rather than addressing the goddess's relation to other puranic bhakti deities, keeps insisting on an "autonomous Devi...

... complex, as well as in the Ramanuja Temple, where the whole epic is displayed. The Bhagavata Purana found extensive sculptural representation as well, particularly in the mahamandapas of the Vithala and Ramanuja Temples. Festivals of Mahanavmi celebrating the victory of the goddess Durga over the demon...