[INDOLOGY] Literature on Minakshi and Gauri puja

Wed Dec 27 14:45:16 UTC 2017

I should also have mentioned Rachel's more recent book, /Revelry, 
Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal. The fortunes of Hindu 
Festivals/ (Columbia UP, 2011), which focuses more specifically on pūjās.

RR

On 12/27/17 9:27 AM, rrocher via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> I am sure that someone must already have mentioned Rachel Fell 
> McDermott's twin books /Mother of my Heart, Daughter of My Dreams//. 
> Kālī and Umā in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal/ and /Singing to the 
> Goddess. Poems to Kālī and Umā from Bengal/, both Oxford UP, 2001.
>
> Best wishes,
> Rosane Rocher //
>
> On 12/27/17 12:48 AM, Nataliya Yanchevskaya via INDOLOGY 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 
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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/book.php?isbn=9780520293014
>>>     <https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293014>
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Palaniappan
>>>
>>>>     On Dec 24, 2017, at 11:47 AM, rajam via INDOLOGY
>>>>     <indology at list.indology.info
>>>>     <mailto: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=aGmbBYxcnB4&feature=youtu.be>
>>>>
>>>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl74OrnmhyY
>>>>     <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl74OrnmhyY>
>>>>
>>>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90zDikxHb5E
>>>>     <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
>>>>>     <mailto: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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