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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Page 159
... rasik temples to be discussed in the next section . 5. Rasiks Finally , there is another group of Ramanandi sadhus in Ayodhya , whose religious life in entirely different in tone and quality from that of the tyagis and nagas . They are ...
... rasik temples to be discussed in the next section . 5. Rasiks Finally , there is another group of Ramanandi sadhus in Ayodhya , whose religious life in entirely different in tone and quality from that of the tyagis and nagas . They are ...
Page 165
... rasik temples marriage ceremonies are staged in which young Brahman boys play the parts of Ram and Sita . It is also true for the way the personal lives of the rasik sadhus are enacted . In the first chapter we saw how Umapati Tripathi ...
... rasik temples marriage ceremonies are staged in which young Brahman boys play the parts of Ram and Sita . It is also true for the way the personal lives of the rasik sadhus are enacted . In the first chapter we saw how Umapati Tripathi ...
Page 170
... rasik tradition . It is my feeling that the Krishnaite writers influenced rasik theology even down to minute details . I cannot prove this without going into a textual comparison of the works of rasik theologians and those of Krishnaite ...
... rasik tradition . It is my feeling that the Krishnaite writers influenced rasik theology even down to minute details . I cannot prove this without going into a textual comparison of the works of rasik theologians and those of Krishnaite ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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