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Book Description Condition: New. pp. xiv + 214. Seller Inventory # 26372394393
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Mother Goddess, spouse of God and the mother/A.P. Jamkhedkar. 2. Sakti in Indian literature/Gauri Madhulikar. 3. Sakti: the Goddess in Indian philosophy/Ramesh M. Dave. 4. Archetype: Sakti Goddesses and women/Shubhangana Atre. 5. The Sakti-worship as depicted in the Saundaryalahari/M.L. Wadekar. 6. Some socio-ethical perspectives on Sakti/P. Seshadri. 7. Sakti in Hindustani art music compositions/Keshava Chaitanya Kunte. 8. Nirti: Goddess of misfortune/Ambarish Khare. 9. Hariti/Madhulika Maheshvari. 10. Agama rituals followed in Mahalakshmi temple Kolhapur/Ruta Thakur. 11. Sakti-worship of mother in advaita tradition/Uma Shankar. 12. Bahinabai: manifestation of Sakti/Vatsala G. Pai. 13. Bold silent feminist/Amit Valmiki. 14. Women s role in society: a Gandhian approach/Tabasssum Sheikh. 15. Sharada as Sakti: the power of knowledge/Rajshree Vasudevan. 16. Parasakti as Nadaroupal Natesvari/Jayashree Rajagopalan. 17. Sakti in Hindu philosophy Gargland Maitreyias Sakti/Sangeeta Pande. 18. Saktin Samkhya philosophy/Seema Sontakke. 19. Sakti s relevance in Siddhanta Saiva Agamas/Gayathri Karthikeyan. 20. Cult of Lajjagauri during the Rashtrakuta period/Anita Rane Kothare. 21. Devi Laksmi on Northern Indian coins: a study period 600 A.D. to 1200 A.D/Amit Kumar Upadhyay. 22. Women s Sakti and the Satvai a folk Goddess of childbirth in Maharashtra/Deepra Dandekar. 23. Sateri Mata: a study/Shilpa Shashikant Wadekar. 24. The role of Sakti in the science of polity/Asawari Bapat. 25. Janabai, a rebel saint poetess in retrospection/Rina Pitale. 26. Sabda Sakti-Sakti in poetics/Prachi Moghe. This is a volume comprising of selected papers presented in National Seminar on Shakti in Indian Art, Archaeology, Philosophy and literature. The volume touches various areas of knowledge as the title suggests. Scholars who have contributed to the book are from various fields like Archaeology, art, Numismatics, Hindustani art Music, Cultural Anthropology, literature, political science and philosophy. The book takes the cross section of the cultural reflections of the concept of Shakti. Various forms and aspects of Shakti are discussed by scholarly community compiled in the form of this volume. There total 26 papers contributed by scholars coming from various parts of Indian Subcontinent. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 113926