[INDOLOGY] Literature on Minakshi and Gauri puja

Tue Jan 9 04:15:39 UTC 2018

Almost certainly later than the material I was just referring to, there are of course many South Indian Temple Āgamas that contain material about Gaurīpūjā which would doubtless be relevant to the history of the worship of Mīnākṣī, but most such passages will not have been translated. An exception is the Rauravāgama, whose chapter 31 is about the installation and worship of Gaurī.  This has been translated into French:

Bruno Dagens and Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret, trans. 2000. Le Rauravāgama: un traité de rituel et de doctrine śivaïtes.  2 Vols.  Publications du département d’indologie No. 89.1 and 89.2. Pondicherry: Institut français de Pondichéry, 2000.

Dominic Goodall

> On 09-Jan-2018, at 9:31 AM, Dominic Goodall <dominic.goodall at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Just a footnote, but for what it’s worth, in the introduction to our edition of the Prāyaścittasamuccaya, there is a digression about the gradual emergence of rôles for women within the Śaivasiddhānta, and inside that digression there are just 4 pages on Gaurīpūjā, giving some hitherto unpublished primary evidence, namely pp. 32–35.
> Śaiva Rites of Expiation.  A First Edition and Translation of Trilocanaśiva’s Twelfth-century Prāyaścittasamuccaya (with a transcription of Hṛdayaśiva’s Prāyaścittasamuccaya), critically edited & translated by R. Sathyanarayanan with an introduction by Dominic Goodall. Collection Indologie 127.  Pondicherry: IFP/EFEO, 2015.
> 
> Dominic Goodall,
> 
> 
>> On 27-Dec-2017, at 9:58 PM, Ute Huesken via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>> 
>> I might have missed it and they might have been mentioned already, but Chris Fuller's two books Servants of the Goddess and The Renewal of Priesthood are important reads on the Minakshi temple in Madurai.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> UH
>> 
>> Am 27.12.17 um 15:27 schrieb rrocher via INDOLOGY:
>>> 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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