The Cult of Draupadī: Mythologies: from Gingee to Kurukṣetra, Volume 1Motilal Banarsidass Publishe, 1991 - 487 pages This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual and dramatic forms. It focuses on the Draupadi cult's own double mythology, moving from its storieis about Draupadi's 'primal temple' near the capital of the medieval South Indian Kingdom of Gingee to its version of the Mahabharata war on the North Indian plain of Kuruksetra. Throughout, Hiltebeitel intertwines 'regional' data, gathered from both oral and written sources, with the 'epic', drawn from the cult's own performative traditions as well as from classical versions of the Mahabharata in both Tamil and Sanskrit. He re-examines many issues critical to Indological studies and takes up them while breaking new ground in investigating the further rapport between the Hindu goddess and the Indian epic. Future volumes will treat the rituals of the Draupadi cult and the Mahabharata as seen through a Draupadi cult retrospective. Contents List of Maps, List of Plates, List of Tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, Conventions, PART I: From Gingee: Introduction: Invocatory Songs to Draupadi, 'The Lady Who Resides in Gingee', The Draupadi Cult: Its Historical and Regional Settings, Social Background, Diffusion, Variation, and Change, The Sources of the Gingee Kingdom: The Living River and the Tree of Gold, Myths of the Melacceri Draupadi Temple, Muttal Ravuttan: Draupadi's Muslim Devotee, PART II: To Kuruksetra: The Draupadi Cult's Mahabharata: An Introduction, The Death of Baka: Prelude to the Drama Cycle, Additional Marriages, The two Sabhas: 'The Rajasuya Sacrifice' and 'Dice Match and Disrobing' , Arjuna's Tapas, Draupadi's Forest Exile and the Period in Disguise: Virapancali, Puvalicci, and Kuravanci, Krsna the Messenger, Aravan's Sacrifice, Pormannan's Fight: Pottu Raja at Kuruksetra, Pormannan's Flight: The War Kings Weapons and Their Mythical Sources, Kuruksetra: The Mahabharata War, When Draupadi Walked on fire, Appendix 1: The Lunar Dynasty from its origins to draupadi's Second Advent at Gingee, Appendix 2. An outline History of Gingee, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. |
Table des matières
Invocatory Songs to Draupadi The | 3 |
Its Historical and Regional | 13 |
Draupadi temples by district | 25 |
Fieldwork and other cultrelated sites | 28 |
Social Background Diffusion Variation | 32 |
The Living | 52 |
Myths of the Mēlaccēri Draupadi Temple | 65 |
Draupadis Muslim Devotee | 101 |
Krsna lowers sarees to Draupadi | 247 |
Arjuna as half male half female eunuch in The Slaughter of Kicaka | 248 |
Cantirampǎți | 249 |
Tindivanam wooden proces sional icon with head | 250 |
Pakkiripālaiyam fixed stone icon with head | 251 |
Tiruvannamalai wooden processional icon with lion | 252 |
Bhima as wood hauler in Pōrmannans Fight | 253 |
Kṛṣṇa as hundredyearold grandmother | 254 |
Opening Piracankam topics of V M Brameesa Mudaliyar | 141 |
Draupadi festival street dramas in early nineteenth century Dindigul | 152 |
Anonymous Irattina Nayakar titles with traceable authors | 160 |
Draupadi festival drama cycles | 165 |
Prelude to the Drama Cycle | 169 |
Beginning the Terukküttu Cycle | 183 |
Additional Marriages | 212 |
Arjunas additional wives | 217 |
The Rājasūya Sacrifice | 224 |
The Mēlaccēri Draupadi temple inner sanctum | 239 |
The Mēlaccēri Draupadi temple from the front | 240 |
Halebid Hoysaleśvara Temple | 241 |
Brameesa Mudaliyar performing Piracankảm | 242 |
Tindivanam wooden processional icon | 243 |
Pondicherry | 244 |
Duḥśāsana stalks Draupadi in Dice Match and Disrobing | 245 |
Draupadi pleading from the ground | 246 |
Arjunas Tapas | 282 |
Draupadis Forest Exile and the Period | 295 |
Kṛṣṇa the Messenger | 310 |
Aravans Sacrifice | 317 |
Põttu Rāja at Kurukṣetra | 333 |
Telugu and Tamil parallels of Pōrmannans Fight | 358 |
The War Kings Weapons | 368 |
Vijayāmpāļ and the grandmother depart with Pōr mannans implements 254 | 369 |
The destruction of Mahiṣāsura and Pōrmannans Fight | 371 |
Origins of the Draupadi cults ritual implements | 387 |
The Mahābhārata War | 394 |
When Draupadi Walked on Fire | 436 |
The Lunar Dynasty from Its Origins | 449 |
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The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1: Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra Alf Hiltebeitel Aucun aperçu disponible - 1988 |