In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Pura?as, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Pura?as. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytellers.
| ISBN: | 9780791413814 |
| Publication date: | 2nd March 1993 |
| Author: | Wendy Doniger |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 331 pages |
| Genres: |
Religion and beliefs |