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@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@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.

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 

Regards,

Palaniappan

On Dec 24, 2017, at 11:47 AM, rajam via INDOLOGY <indology@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@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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