Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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... Sanskrit – ' the sacred language of the Hindus ' - was Sir William Jones , a Supreme Court judge on the Calcutta Bench . By observing in 1786 that Greek , Latin and other European languages must have sprung from the same source as Sanskrit ...
... Sanskrit – ' the sacred language of the Hindus ' - was Sir William Jones , a Supreme Court judge on the Calcutta Bench . By observing in 1786 that Greek , Latin and other European languages must have sprung from the same source as Sanskrit ...
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... Sanskrit word , meaning ' leaving ' or ' abandoning ' . It therefore seems to be equivalent to the common Sanskrit word for renunciation , samnyās , which is used in the Brahmanical varnashrama doctrine as well as by Shivaite ascetics ...
... Sanskrit word , meaning ' leaving ' or ' abandoning ' . It therefore seems to be equivalent to the common Sanskrit word for renunciation , samnyās , which is used in the Brahmanical varnashrama doctrine as well as by Shivaite ascetics ...
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... Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana , which narrates the life of Krishna , is the principal text of Bengali Krishna devotion . In North India this devotion has been spread by Krishnaite groups like the Pustimargis and the Gauriyas who settled in ...
... Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana , which narrates the life of Krishna , is the principal text of Bengali Krishna devotion . In North India this devotion has been spread by Krishnaite groups like the Pustimargis and the Gauriyas who settled in ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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