A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival

Davis, Richard H. (Übers.):
A priest's guide for the great festival : Aghoraśiva's Mahotsavavidhi / transl. and with introduction and notes by Richard H. Davis. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 [2010]. - viii, 191 S. : Ill. - (South Asia Research)
Einheitssachtitel: Mahotsavavidhi <Sanskrit, engl.>
ISBN 978-0-19-537852-8
US$ 74,00
DDC: 294.538
-- Angekündigt für Dezember 2009 --

Beschreibung
The Mahotsavavidhi, a twelfth-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Śaiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival" for the god Śiva. The author, Aghoraśiva, is one of the most esteemed and influential authors in the Śaiva Siddhānta school, and his lengthy work on ritual procedures, Kriyākramadyotikā, (of which the Mahotsavavidhi is a part), is by all accounts the Āgama work most employed by modern temple priests and pious Śaivas in their practice of worship. Richard Davis's translation of this important text is the first translation into a European language of any medieval work on temple festivals. Because the text was intended for an expert audience of working twelfth-century priests, Aghoraśiva employs a highly technical idiom. For that reason, Davis annotates his translation extensively with explanations and expansions drawn from other Āgama works. There have been numerous studies of temple festivals and processions based on ethnographic observations and on recent historical data, but the historical study of this dramatic religious practice during earlier periods has relied on speculation. Davis's groundbreaking volume will provide a new foundation for the study of the history of South Indian temple festivals as a cultural practice. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Abbreviations. xi
List of Tables and Diagrams. xiii
Notes on Text, Author and Translation. 3
Introduction. 15
Translation. 59
Text (in Devanagari). 147
References. 173
Index. 185

Übersetzer
Richard H. Davis, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Bard College. Faculty profile.

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