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The Rite of Durgā in Medieval Bengal: An Introductory Study of Raghunandana's Durgāpūjātattva with Text and Translation of the Principal Rites

SARKAR, BIHANI·2012·Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
DOI 10.1017/s1356186312000181
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The autumnal Durgā Pūjā, the ten-lunar-day worship of the goddess Durgā, also known as Caṇḍī or Caṇḍīkā, is one of the most important festivals in East India and Nepal. Throughout villages and cities in Bengal, Orissa, Assam and the Kathmandu Valley the occasion is marked by pomp and circumstance. In Bengal especially, this worship is a reflection of a culture that has given goddesses a privileged position over male deities from at least the time of the Pālas.2However, despite the availability of material from the eighteenth century to the present day, the worship of the goddess prior to the colonial presence still remains to a great extentterra incognita. Sanskritpaddhatis (ritual manuals) from the medieval era are among the few records available from Bengal that shed light on the pedagogical and performative context of the rite. The purpose of this article is to provide a synchronic sketch of the medieval ceremony based on the influential and widely cited medieval manual, theDurgāpūjātattva(“The truth concerning the rite of Durgā”, henceforth DPT) of Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya (1520–1575ce)3supported by parallel accounts of the rite contained in related literature. The sketch will be used as a broad framework to illustrate the manner in which the ceremony was performed or could have been performed in Bengal during the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuriesce.

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Authors
SARKAR, B.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
SARKAR, BIHANI
Venue
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2012-04
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
325-390
ISSN
  • 0035-869X (ISSN-L)
  • 2051-2066
DOI
10.1017/s1356186312000181
OpenAlex
W2057594477
Cited by
4
References
21
Citations by year
2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1
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Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 60 d)
Locations
  • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (publishedVersion)
  • Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Cultural and Mythological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Keywords
Durga Puja, medieval Bengal, goddess worship, Candi, Pāla period, ritual performance, Hindu festivals

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SARKAR, B. (2012). The Rite of Durgā in Medieval Bengal: An Introductory Study of Raghunandana's Durgāpūjātattva with Text and Translation of the Principal Rites. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186312000181