TY  - BOOK
TI  - The puranic world: environment gender ritual and myth
SN  - 9788173048012
U1  - 294.5925 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Manohar
N1  - 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
ER  -