The cult of Draupadi / Alf Hiltebeitel
- Bib ID:
- 2583489
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hiltebeitel, Alf
- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988-<1991>
- v. <1-2 > ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226340457 (volume 1)
- 0226340465 (paperback) (volume 1)
- 0226340473 (alkaline paper) (volume 2)
- 0226340481 (alkaline paper) (volume 2 : paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. Mythologies : from Gingee to Kuruksetra: 1. Introduction. Invocatory songs to Draupadi, "The lady who resides in Gingee"
- 2. The Draupadi cult: its historical and regional settings
- 3. Social background, diffusion, variation, and change
- 4. The sources of the Gingee kingdom: the living river and the tree of gold
- 5. Myths of the Melacceri Draupadi temple
- 6. Muttal Ravuttan: Draupadi's muslim devotee
- 7. The Draupadi cult's Mahabharata: an introduction
- 8. The death of Baka: prelude to the drama cycle
- 9. For openers: beginning the Terukkutta cycle
- 10. Additional marriages
- 11. The two Sabhas: "The Rajasuya sacrifice" and "Dice match and disrobing"
- 12. Arjuna's Tapas
- 13. Draupadi's forest exile and the period in disguise: Virapancali, Puvalicci, and Kuravanci
- 14. Krsna the Messenger
- 15. Aravan's sacrifice
- 16. Pormannan's fight: Pottu Raja at Kuruksetra
- 17. Pormannan's fight: the war king's weapons and their mythical sources
- 18. Kuruksetra: the Mahabharata War
- 19. When Draupadi walked on fire
- Appendix 1. The lunar dynasty from its origins to Draupadi's second advent at Gingee
- Appendix 2. An outline history of Gingee.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Mythologies: from Gingee to Kuruksetra
- Copyright:
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