A priest's guide for the great festival, Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi, translated and with introduction and notes by Richard H. Davis
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A priest's guide for the great festival, Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi, translated and with introduction and notes by Richard H. Davis
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
A priest's guide for the great festival
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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646215541
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translated and with introduction and notes by Richard H. Davis
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
Summary
The Mahotsavavidhi of the Saiva preceptor Aghorasiva, completed in 1157 c.e., provides step-by-step guidance for a Hindu priest conducting a nine-day festival in medieval India. This annotated rendering of Aghorasiva's 12th-century work is the first extensive translation of a medieval work on Hindu temple festivals into a European language
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