The puranic world/ environment gender ritual and myth Nath,Vijay
Material type: TextPublication details: Delhi: Manohar, 2009Description: 309ISBN: 9788173048012DDC classification: 294.5925Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 294.5925 NAT/P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P30720 |
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Material Milieu of Puranic Hinduism
2. Environmental Issues and Ecological Concerns:
The Puranic Approach
PART II: GENDER DIFFERENTIATION
3. Women as Property and their Right to Inherit Property
4. Gender Differentiation or Gender Parity:
In the Light of the Matsya and the Mdrkandeya Purdnas
PART III: RITUALS
5. Brahmanical Rituals: The Changing Paradigm
6. Malidddna: Dynamics of Gift Economy
7. Tirtha: Instrument of Acculturation?
8. Puranic Tirthas: Their Indigenous Origins and
Transformation
PART IV: MYTH
9. King Vena. Nisada and Prthu:
A Recurrent Puranic Myth Re-examined
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