TY - CHAP
T1 - Worshipping Viṣṇu’s Twelve Manifestations
T2 - A Glimpse into Early Medieval Vaiṣṇava Lay Practice.
AU - Rastelli, Marion
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The paper traces the history of religious practices devoted to a particular set of the twelve manifestations of Viṣṇu. These practices are mostly monthly observances (vrata), which were widely known and implemented as evident from their description in various textual sources such as the Baudhāyana Sūtras, Varāhamihira’s Bṛhatsaṃhitā, the Ṛgvidhāna, the Viṣṇudharma, and appendix passages of the Mahābhārata. They were highly influential even beyond the sectarian borders of Vaiṣṇavism, since they served as a model for the composition of a full calendrical scheme in the Niśvāsamukha, which belongs to the earliest extant Śaiva tantra, the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā.
AB - The paper traces the history of religious practices devoted to a particular set of the twelve manifestations of Viṣṇu. These practices are mostly monthly observances (vrata), which were widely known and implemented as evident from their description in various textual sources such as the Baudhāyana Sūtras, Varāhamihira’s Bṛhatsaṃhitā, the Ṛgvidhāna, the Viṣṇudharma, and appendix passages of the Mahābhārata. They were highly influential even beyond the sectarian borders of Vaiṣṇavism, since they served as a model for the composition of a full calendrical scheme in the Niśvāsamukha, which belongs to the earliest extant Śaiva tantra, the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā.
U2 - 10.12797/CIS.21.2019.01.07
DO - 10.12797/CIS.21.2019.01.07
M3 - Chapter
VL - 21
T3 - Cracow Indological Studies
SP - 165
EP - 207
BT - gurum upapadyamahe
A2 - Czerniak-Drożdżowicz, Marzenna
A2 - Dębicka-Borek, Ewa
PB - Ksiegarnia Akademicka
CY - Krakow
ER -