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- Title: Untersuchungen Zur Gottesvorstellung in Der Alteren Anonymliteratur Des Pancaratra (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 201 KB
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Untersuchungen zur Gottesvorstellung in der alteren Anonymliteratur des Pancaratra. By ANDREAS BOCK-RAMING. Beitrage zur Indologie, vol. 34. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ, 2002. Pp. vi + 405, plates. [euro]99. Pancaratra is an important Hindu tradition of liturgical devotion to various Vaisnava divine aspects, whose existence can be traced in literature from around the third-fourth century and which influenced the rites and theologies of main Vaisnava movements up to the sixteenth century. This influence extended beyond the Indian subcontinent: Cambodian inscriptions as early as the seventh century explicitly mention Pancaratra tradition. Thirty of the more than two hundred Pancaratra samhitas ("collections," mostly ritual manuals) have been published. Modern scholars like F. O. Schrader, V. Krishnamacharya, H. D. Smith, M. Matsubara, S. Gupta, H. Hikita, and M. Rastelli have produced critical editions, studies, and translations of Pancaratra texts. Yet much remains to be done to understand this tradition and its evolution. The book under review is a recent contribution to this field of research.
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