The Incorporation of Devotional Theism into Purāṇic Gifting Rites.
The Purāṇas make a major contribution to Brahmanical writing on gifting, primarily because they contain descriptions of numerous specific gifting rites that texts of other genres generally fail to discuss. Although largely unstudied, these Purāṇic gifting rites provide unique evidence of a historica...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Indian Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 191 - 206 |
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