![]() ![]() The paradigm was also used to draw too sharp a line between these presumably high and low cultures, ignoring the fact that a Brahmin who wrote a Sanskrit text with one hand (his right, one assumed) was also quite likely to be the author of a Tamil oral tale with the other hand (presumably the left). Max Müller applied to myth in comparison with religion, "silly, senseless, and savage"). Often than not, to argue that vernacular myths and rituals were, in comparison with their Sanskrit counterparts, late and low (or, to use the phrase that F. But in later years, and in other hands, it was invoked, more In the hands of Redfield (whom a colleague once described, unkindly, as a man who went around kicking in open doors), it began a fruitful conversation. page_vii Page viii That the Little Tradition is the big wheel rather than the little wheel should not surprise us the Redfield model has begun to turn upside down, or inside out. The big wheel of the grace of God (bhakti)might stand for the equally so-called Little Tradition of India, the village tradition of localized, vernacular, basically oral culture. The little wheel of faith (sraddha)might stand for the so-called Great Tradition of India, to borrow Robert Redfield's seminal terminology for the pan-Indian Sanskritic tradition that self-consciously traces its lineage back to the Veda and the Epics. The texts that are the subject of this volume also run on those two sets of wheels, written and oral, ancient and modern, and, in this case, Hindu and Jaina. These two texts might themselves be regarded as a wheel within a wheel, two interlocking interpretations, one written, one oral one ancient, one modern one Jewish, one Christian. Ezekiel 10.9-10 The Hebrew Bible version of the vision of Ezekiel speaks of a wheel within a wheel the African-American version speaks of two wheels, one of faith and the other of grace. And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. Traditional African-American song And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub and the appearance of the wheels was like the color of a beryl stone. 'Tis a wheel in a wheel, 'way up in the middle of the air. And the little wheel ran by faith, and the big wheel ran by the grace of God. INTRODUCTION Ezekiel saw the wheel, 'way up in the middle of the air, Ezekiel saw the wheel, 'way up in the middle of the air. Cortĩ Jaina Puranas: A Puranic Counter Tradition Padmanabh S. From Hindu to Jaina and Back Again 8 An Overview of the Jaina Puranas John E. RamanujanĦ Remaking a Purana: The Rescue of Gajendra in Potana's Telugu Mahabhagavatamu David Shulmanįile:///C|/026/files/_joined.htmlħ Information and Transformation: Two Faces of the Puranas Friedhelm Hardy From South to North and Back Again 4 Purana as Brahminic Ideology Velcheru Narayana Raoĥ On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas A. PattonĢ Echoes of the Mahabharata: Why is a Parrot the Narrator of the Bhagavata Purana and the Devibhagavata Purana? Wendy Donigerģ The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana Wendy Doniger From Veda and Epic to Purana and Upapurana 1 The Transparent Text: Puranic Trends in the Brhaddevata Laurie L. Includes bibliographical references and index. Purana perennis : reciprocity and transformation in Hindu and Jaina texts / Wendy Doniger. For information, address the State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Doniger, Wendy. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1993 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS page_iii Page ivįor all the Davids Production by Ruth Fisher Marketing by Bernadette LaManna file:///C|/026/files/_joined.html Purana Perennis Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts Edited by Wendy Doniger Purana Perennis : Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts Doniger, Wendy. Title: author: publisher: isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: ebook isbn13: language: subject publication date: lcc: ddc: subject: ![]()
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