[INDOLOGY] Literature on Minakshi and Gauri puja

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Focuses on floor art in Gauri puja along with floor art in other contexts:

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/4605/9/09_chapter%203.pdf

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Nataliya Yanchevskaya via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Many thanks for your responses about Minakshi and the Minakshi temple!
> I hope my student will be able to use all the recommended literature to
> write a good paper.
>
> If you can recommend anything on the Gauri puja it will also be most
> appreciated. (I found a few things but not sure they are suitable for the
> undergraduates...)
>
> Best wishes for the upcoming New Year,
> Nataliya
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Here is one more.
>>
>> *Extraordinary Child*: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre,  Paula
>> Richman, University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Palaniappan
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan <
>> Palaniappa at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> The follwing might be of use too.
>>
>> *The Srī Mīnākṣi Sundareśvarar Temple: Worship and Endowments in South
>> India, 1833 to 1925*. Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Wisconsin-Madison,
>> 1976.
>>
>> *Tamil temple myths: Sacrifice and divine marriage in the South Indian
>> Saiva tradition*: David Dean Shulman, Princeton University Press 1980.
>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/publication/256383700_Tamil_temple_myths_Sacrifice_and_divine_marriage_in_the_South_Indian_Saiva_tradition_David_Dean_Shulman_Princeton_University_Press_1980_472_pp_1670?ev=pubitem-pub_related&_iepl%5BviewId%5D=PAGfOiLKLlLmBvU0OEtveFYb1PVP6fd1iWBk&_iepl%5Bcontexts%5D%5B0%5D=pdppi&_iepl%5Bdata%5D%5Bmilestone%5D=experimentMilestoneClickedToPublicationFromRelatedWithNoFulltext&_iepl%5BinteractionType%5D=publicationView>
>>
>> *Hindu Pluralism: **Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South
>> India *by Elaine M. Fisher available at https://www.ucpress.edu/boo
>> k.php?isbn=9780520293014
>>
>> Regards,
>> Palaniappan
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2017, at 11:47 AM, rajam via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I’m delighted to hear about this effort! I grew up in a house just
>> four doors away from Madurai Meenakshi Temple, and spent a lot of time
>> there.
>>
>> Well … for starters … you can listen to a specific Carnatic song rendered
>> by three different musicians. The speciality of this song is that the song
>> is full of allusions, and only the opening line is about the composer’s
>> request. The song is in slow tempo, words are clearly enunciated.
>> Sanskritists won’t have difficulty understanding the song.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmbBYxcnB4&feature=youtu.be
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl74OrnmhyY
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90zDikxHb5E
>>
>> There are plenty of references in Tamil. I’d be happy to share that
>> information with you after the holidays.
>>
>> I’d rather not inundate this list with my references.
>>
>> Please contact me off list if you’re still interested.
>>
>> Regards,
>> rajam
>>
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2017, at 1:46 AM, Nataliya Yanchevskaya via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> My students are writing term papers for the South Asian mythology course.
>> One of them is writing on  MInAkSI and the Minakshi temple in Madurai;
>> another one is writing on the Gauri puja as performed in Maharashtra.
>> Could you please kindly recommend scholarly sources (books or articles)
>> on these two subjects suitable for the undergraduate students?
>>
>> Many thanks and happy holidays,
>> Nataliya Yanchevskaya
>> Lecturer in Sanskrit, Princeton University
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Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

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