Ganesh – Studies of an Asian God
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Detail Of Ganesh – Studies of an Asian God
| ISBN | 8170305489 |
| Pages | 358 |
| Language: | English |
| Product Code: | 1 |
| Size(in cm): | 8.8 inch X 5.8 inch cm |
| Weight(in grams): | 550(approx) |
Description:
Contents
Foreword – A.K. Narain vii
Acknowledgments ix
Note On Transliteration xi
Introduction – Robert L. Brown 1
1. Ganesa: A Protohistory of the Idea and the Icon – A.K. Narain 19
2. Ganesa: Myth and Reality – M.K. Dhavalikar 49
3. Ganesa’s Rise to Prominence in Sanskrit Literature – Ludo Rocher 69
4. Ganesa as Metaphor: The Mudgala Purana – Phyllis Granoff 85
5. Images of Ganesa in Jainism – Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri 101
6. The Wives of Ganesa – Lawrence Cohen 115
7. “Vatapi Ganapatim”: Sculptural, Poetic, and Musical Texts in a Hymn to Ganesa – Amy Catlin 141
8. Ganesa in Southeast Asian Art: Indian Connections and Indigenous Developments – Robert L. Brown 171
9. The Tantric Ganesa: Texts Preserved in the Tibetan Canon – Christopher Wilkinson 235
10. Ganesa in China: Methods of Transforming the Demonic – Lewis R. Lancaster 277 277
11. Literary Aspects of Japan’s Dual-Ganesa Cult – James H. Sanford 287
List of Contributors 337
Index 341
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