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- Title
Worshipping Visnu's Twelve Manifestations: A Glimpse into Early Medieval Vaisnava Lay Practice.
- Authors
Rastelli, Marion
- Abstract
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 Bṛhatsaṃhita, 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 Nisvāsamukha, which belongs to the earliest extant Śaiva tantra, the Nisvāsatattvasaṃhitā.
- Subjects
VISHNU (Hindu deity); WORSHIP (Hinduism); HINDU laity; VRATAS; HINDU gods; HINDU doctrines
- Publication
Cracow Indological Studies, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
1732-0917
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12797/CIS.21.2019.01.07