The Goddess's Embrace : Multifaceted Relations at the Ekāmranātha Temple Festival in Kanchipuram.
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| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2019.
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| Series: | Ethno-Indology / Heidelberg Studies in South Asia Rituals.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration and Translation; Abbreviations; Figures and Tables; Introduction; 1 The Ekāmranātha Temple; 1.1 Kanchipuram; 1.2 Entering the Ekāmranātha temple; 1.3 Ekāmranātha's central myth, divine symbols and name; 1.4 Notes on the history of the Ekāmranātha temple; 2 The ‚mahotsava' at the Ekāmranātha Temple; 2.1 Historical references to the ‚mahotsava' at the Ekāmranātha temple; 2.2 Aghoraśivācārya's Mahotsavavidhi; 2.3 Ritual structure of the mahotsava at the Ekāmranātha temple; 2.4 Processional routes, special events and donors
- 2.5 Concluding remarks3 The 'marriage myth'; 3.1 Sources; 3.2 Narrative themes; 3.3 Concluding remarks; 4 Rituals on Paṅkuṉi Uttiram; 4.1 Okkapiranthan Kulam
- the meeting of the goddesses; 4.2 ‚Tapas' and the worship of the sand ‚liṅga'; 4.3 The divine marriage; 4.4 Concluding remarks; 5 Three Goddesses; 5.1 Kāmākṣī, Kāmakoṭi and the Kāmakōṭṭam; 5.2 Kāmākṣī and Āti Kāmākṣī Kāḷikāmpāḷ; 5.3 Kāmākṣī, Baṅgāru Kāmākṣī and Ēlavārkuḻali; 5.4 Concluding remarks; 6 Perspectives on Participation; 6.1 Festival participation; 6.2 Priests; 6.3 The 'Seven Streets' of Okkapiranthan Kulam
- 6.4 Donors for the marriage6.5 Human marriages; 6.6 Concluding remarks; 7 The Formation of Cultural Memory; 7.1 Commemoration; 7.2 What is remembered?
- The transmission of cultural memory; 7.3 Concluding remarks; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography