{"product_id":"goddess-and-the-sun-in-indian-myth-hardback","title":"Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, and those glorifying the Sun, Sūrya\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003efound in the \u003cem\u003eMārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa\u003c\/em\u003e, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the \u003ci\u003eMārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa\u003c\/i\u003e privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devī), the Sun (Sūrya), Manu and Mārkaṇḍeya himself are paragons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book features a salient discovery in Sanskrit narrative text: just as the \u003ci\u003eMārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa\u003c\/i\u003e houses the \u003ci\u003eDevī Māhātmya \u003c\/i\u003eglorifying the supremacy of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, it also houses a \u003ci\u003eSūrya Māhātmya\u003c\/i\u003e, glorifying the supremacy of the Sun, Sūrya, in much the same manner. This book argues that these \u003cem\u003emāhātmyas\u003c\/em\u003e were meaningfully and purposefully positioned in the \u003ci\u003eMārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa\u003c\/i\u003e, while previous scholarship has considered this haphazard interpolation for sectarian aims. The book demonstrates that deliberate compositional strategies make up the Saura–Śākta symbiosis found in these mirrored \u003cem\u003emāhātmyas\u003c\/em\u003e. Moreover, the author explores what he calls the \"dharmic double helix\" of Brahmanism, most explicitly articulated by the structural opposition between \u003cem\u003epravṛtti \u003c\/em\u003e(worldly) and \u003cem\u003enivṛtti\u003c\/em\u003e (other-worldy) \u003cem\u003edharmas\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the first narrative study of the \u003ci\u003eSūrya Māhātmya\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the first study of the \u003ci\u003eMārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa\u003c\/i\u003e (or any Purāṇa), as a narrative whole, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Religion, Hindu Studies, South Asian Studies, Goddess Studies, Narrative Theory and Comparative Mythology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45582791540974,"sku":"9780367338053","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367338053.jpg?v=1721089825","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/goddess-and-the-sun-in-indian-myth-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}