The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Archetypal Indra Festival -- Jātrā: Politics, Violence, and Power -- The Chronology of the Indra Festival and an Introduction to the Chapters -- A Note on Language -- Chapter One The Early Medieval Indra Festival -- D...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2023
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| В: | Год: 2023 |
| Редактирование: | 1st ed. |
| Серии журналов/журналы: | SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
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| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Indra
/ Südasien
/ Индуизм (мотив)
/ Религиозный праздник (мотив)
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| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Religion and politics-Nepal
B India Религия (мотив) To 1200 B Indra Jātrā-Nepal-Kathmandu B Electronic books B India-Religion-To 1200 B Indra Jātrā (Nepal) (Kathmandu) B Hinduism-India-History B Religion And Politics (Nepal) B Hinduism (India) History |
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| Итог: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Archetypal Indra Festival -- Jātrā: Politics, Violence, and Power -- The Chronology of the Indra Festival and an Introduction to the Chapters -- A Note on Language -- Chapter One The Early Medieval Indra Festival -- Dharma in the Mahābhārata -- Drama in the Nāṭyaśāstra -- Royal Power in the Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa -- Architecture in the Samarāṅgana Sūtradhāra -- Devotion in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa -- The Urban Habitus in Kathmandu -- Chapter Two The Journey from the Forest -- Sāit No. 1: The Ban Yātrā -- Sāit No. 2: Day One: Cutting the Tree -- Day Two: Felling the Poles -- Conveying the Pole -- Ritual Security, Ritual Violence, Ritual Death -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Preparing, Entering, and Establishing the City -- Sāit No. 3: The Entrance of the Pole -- Kathmandu's Nagara Praveśa -- Sāit No. 4: Installing the Pole -- The Upāku Procession -- Local Ancestral Poles -- Sāit No. 5: Visarjan -- Chapter Four Nepali Chronicles and the Living Goddess Kumari -- Nepālikabhūpa Vaṃśāvalī -- The Royal Kumari -- The Royal Kumari in the Indra Festival -- The Royal Kumari in the NBhV -- The 1768 Shah Invasion -- Chapter Five The Construction of the Indra Festival in Nineteenth-Century Kathmandu -- The Indradhvajotsava Kathanam -- Śaktivallabh and the Multiple Kumari -- Śaktivallabh's Indra Puja -- Local Newar Indrapūjā Texts -- Local Newar Indrapūjā Rituals -- Conclusion: A Narrative of Erasure -- Chapter Six Sacrificing (to) Bhairav: The Resurrection of a Local Himalayan King -- Indra's Elephant -- Lākhe and Jhyālincha -- Akash Bhairav -- Newars and Janjati -- Contextualizing the Severed Head -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Tantra, the Mahābhārata, and the Iconography of Indra -- The Nepalese Parijāta Haraṇa -- Cucumbers -- Baumata and Ḍāgīṃ -- Multiple Readings of Indra. Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. |
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| Объем: | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4384-9334-3 |
