Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Devī-Māhātmya and a Study of Its Interpretation

by Thomas B. Coburn

Book Overview

Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791404463
• ISBN13: 9780791404461
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"