Retrofitting a Vedic Origin for a Classical Hindu Goddess.
Many Hindu deities as known from classical sources (i.e, from the epics, Purāas, and later religious literature and iconography) have a very slender profile in the Vedic texts, appearing in only a few passages and often represented in ways that seem peripheral to their full, classical personae. Ritu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 140; no. 1; pp. 37 - 47 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Jan-Mar2020
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