Rebuking Vi??u and Reaping the Rewards: Divine Slander and Ambivalent Justifications in Sanskrit Narrative.
This paper argues that a concept of rebuking God (bhagavannindā) existed as a prohibited act in premodern Sanskrit Brahmanical texts, with the earliest examples in medieval Vaiava narratives (in the Bhāgavata Purāa and Viu Purāa) of Vena and Śiśupāla. The concept of bhagavannindā problematizes the B...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 144; no. 2; pp. 259 - 285 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Apr-Jun2024
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