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... member's desire to perform it. It is then repeated each year as a tradition. When a family lives as a joint household, the annual pujd becomes one of its significant bonds. When such a family becomes divided into several units, each unit may take turns in celebrating the annual pujd. The responsibilities...

... space at the center of various women's communities" (p. vii). As the chapters unfold, we enter the temple with the women of the Mandal and watch as they perform their morning temple worship (pujd), choosing their favorite devotional songs {stavari) to offer to the Jinas as personal expressions...

... or IndranI and give the Tlrthankar his first bath. Indeed, one could say that to worship an image of the Tlrthankar is to assume this role. In elaborate pujds, participants sometimes wear crowns symbolizing their identity with Indra or IndranI. This general pattern is connected with what is at first glance...

..., iconographic principles, the structure of pujd, ceremonial roles, the meaning and nature of offerings, sacrifice, mantra (sacred utterance), mudrd (sacred gesture), yantra (sacred diagram), ritual paraphernalia (the ghat, the nine plants representing the goddess, the "auspicious things" on the offering plate...

... Basham on such important topics as the flowering of sectarian theologies, the rise of temple and domestic worship (pujd), or the widespread solidification of emotional devotionalism {bhakti). To be sure, precursors to these developments find mention throughout Basham's work. But they are not given...

... relationships between these sets of deities and their social landscape in ways that might test the assumptions of the Marriott-Stein-Appadurai "school" on ritual reciprocities. Similarly, Einoo ("Changes in Hindu Ritual after describing in detail a morning pujd (the darsa-purnamdsa) as performed by a brahman...

... to and pujd offerings at the Sri Sarada temple make evident what Sawai calls "Tantric Advaita," in which devotees aim to gain Srividyd by worshipping Sarada on the Sri cakra. More analysis of "Tantric Advaita," which combines devotion, knowledge (jndna), action (karma), and yoga, would have been welcome...

..., accessible, wide in scope, yet succinct in presentation. The book's brevity means, however, that there is little sustained comment from Basham on such important topics as the flowering of sectarian theologies, the rise of temple and domestic worship (pujd), or the widespread solidification of emotional...

...-halt, in the progress of the Sri Jnanesvar palanquin from Alandi to Pandharpur, a walk of over 150 miles. Each chapter, written in a style that mixes the diaristic and anecdotal with realistic narrative, provides a detailed account of pilgrims, pilgrim-groups, situations, events, rituals (pujd, bhajana...

... of the Marriott-Stein-Appadurai "school" on ritual reciprocities. Similarly, Einoo ("Changes in Hindu Ritual after describing in detail a morning pujd (the darsa-purnamdsa) as performed by a brahman in Northern Bihar, compares descriptions of mourning rituals found sequentially in three sets of texts...

... called bodhi pujd, in which the bo tree is worshipped for particular ends. Also important is the Sinhalese-Buddhist appropriation of the pilgrimage site of Kataragama, where spirit religion has influenced Buddhism. In their conclusion, Gombrich and Obeyesekere argue that the experience of India suggests...

... of the goddess Durga) which Babb demonstrates all share a common ritual grammar, the structure of the ptljd as a "core ritual." There are three chapters in the middle of the book which trace the various ways in which the language of the pujd can be seen to underlie rites of the life cycle, the ritual observances...

... grammar, the structure of the ptljd as a "core ritual." There are three chapters in the middle of the book which trace the various ways in which the language of the pujd can be seen to underlie rites of the life cycle, the ritual observances of the daily and weekly and monthly cycles, and finally...

.... He deals with the eval Western Europe, but he concludes that texts on which the movement is based, tracing "The poets found in Radha not only an aspect it back to the practice of pancdyatana pujd, of divinity, but a real woman. Her affair with or the domestic worship of five divinities Krishna...

... dars'an and m a k e pujd. In the village Shani Shingnapur in Ahmednagar District, there is a large ydtrd on every s'ani amavasya b e cause of the heightened fluidity of Sani's p o w e r o n that day (taped interview, Sani Amavasya, 10 May 1975)- 26 Buddhavar (Wednesday) is g o v e r n e d by Buddha...

... with the Durgd pujd of India, especially of Bengal. The short paragraphs about the Dasahara in Wright's History of Nepal (p. 39) and Turner's Dictionary (p. 306) differ in some respects. According to Turner the etymological explanation of the name is (lw. Sanskr. dasahara) "the taker away of the ten," namely...

... of oxen are all dependent on this energy. Bal and sakti are sometimes used interchangeably to speak of physical strength and power. Hanuman is the supreme manifestation of this kind of power; he is strength of limb and body and virility incarnate. Worship (pujd) in honor of saktilbal is a way...

... and symbolically assuring his victory over Ravan, who had been her devotee. "Ram k} Shakti-Pujd" is not only a combination of epic and mysticism; it is also, and perhaps above all, an allegory of Nirala's own career. Among the poems in Andmi\d there are also realistic portraits, more controlled but no less...

... element in Sanskrit itself, it becomes possible for a Sanskrit word of Dravidian origin to be adopted into Dravidian again. According to Collins, the word pujd provides an example of this kind of migration.53 The Dravidian languages have also influenced each other. Malayalam can actually be considered...

.... But in either case, the offering (baliya, balibili, pujd/dola) is less polluting than dola offered to goblins (yat{ds) and less pure than piijdva offered gods and deities (deviyds). Persons may also wear charmed amulets in order to repel them. Most other astrological practices, like casting and reading...