Identity and divinity: Boundary-crossing goddesses in medieval south India

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-43

  Orr, Leslie C ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449171928     PISSN: 00027189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfi003     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. ARE Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy. 1905-1978. Delhi: Manager of Publications
2. EI Epigraphia Indica. Calcutta/Delhi: Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, 1892
3. JIT Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu (A Topographical List), A. Ekambaranathan and C. K. Sivaprakasam. Madras: Research Foundation for Jainology, 1987
4. Nālāyira Tivviyappirapantam Tamil text. Chennai: Lifco, 1984
5. Neelakesi The Original Text and the Commentary of Samaya-Divakara-Vamana-Muni. A summary-translation by A. Chakravarti. Kumbakonam: author, 1936
6. Periya Purānam (Tiruttontar Mākkatai) Tamil text. Tirunelveli: South India Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society, 1977
7. Periya Puranam Translated by T. N. Ramachandran. 2 volumes. Thanjavur: Tamil University, 1990 and 1995
8. SII South Indian Inscriptions. Volumes 2-24. Delhi: Director-General, Archaeological Survey of India, 1891-1983
9. TAS Travancore Archaeological Series. Volumes 1-8. Trivandrum, 1910-1938
10. Tēvāram Tamil text. Edited by T. V. Gopal Iyer. 3 volumes. Pondichéry: Institut français d'Indologie, 1984-1991
11. TL A Topographical List of Inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala States, ed. T. V. Mahalingam, volumes II, V, and VI. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1988-1991
12. Baskaran, S. T. 1974 "The Saptamātrikās of Perunkanchi." Lalit Kala 17: 14-17
13. Bayly, Susan 1989 Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
14. Brunner, Hélēne 1990 "L'image divine dans le culte agamique de Śiva: Rapport entre l'image mentale et le support concret du culte." In L'image Divine: Culte et médiation dans I'hindouisme, 9-29. Ed. by André Padoux. Paris: CNRS
15. Carrithers, Michael 2000 "On Polytropy: Or the Natural Condition of Spiritual Cosmopolitanism in India: The Digambar Jain Case." Modern Asian Studies 34/4: 831-861
16. Cohen, Richard S. 1998 "Nāga, Yaksinī, Buddha: Local Deities and Local Buddhism at Ajanta." History of Religions 37/4: 360-400
17. Cort, John E. 2000 "Multiple Visions: Experiences of Osian." Paper presented at the University of California, Santa Barbara's conference on "Vital, Mutual, and Fatal Attractions: The Sharing and Contesting of Sacred Space in South Asia."
18. 2002 "Bhakti in the Early Jain Tradition: Understanding Devotional Religion in South Asia." History of Religions 42/1: 59-86
19. Davis, Richard H. 1997 Lives of Indian Images. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
20. Desai, Pandurang B. 1957 Jainism in South India. Sholapur: Jaina Samskrti Samrakshaka Sangha
21. Devakunjari, D. 1979 Madurai through the Ages: From the Earliest Times to 1801 A.D. Madras: Society for Archaeological, Historical and Epigraphical Research
22. Ekambaranathan, A. 1996 Jainism in Tamilnadu: Art and Archaeology. Port Credit, ON: Jain Humanities Press
23. Erndl, Kathleen M. 1993 Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol. New York: Oxford University Press
24. Granoff, Phyllis 1985 "Scholars and Wonder-Workers: Some Remarks on the Role of the Supernatural in Philosophical Contests in Vedānta Hagiographies." Journal of the American Oriental Society 105: 459-467
25. 1990 The Clever Adultress and Other Stories. Oakville: Mosaic
26. Gros, François, and R. Nagaswamy 1970 Uttaramērūr. Légendes, Histoire, Monuments. Pondichéry: Institut français d'Indologie
27. Harle, James C. 1995 Temple Gateways in South India: The Architecture and Iconography of the Cidambaram Gopuras. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal
28. Humes, Cynthia Ann 1996 "Vindyavāsinī: Local Goddess Yet Great Goddess." In Devi: Goddesses of India, 49-76. Ed. by John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff. Berkeley: University of California Press
29. Kaimal, Padma 1988 "Stone Portrait Sculpture at Pallava and Early Cola Temples: Kings, Patrons, and Individual Identity." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley
30. Leslie, Julia 1991 "Śrī and Jyesthā: Ambivalent Role Models for Women." In Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women, 107-127. Ed. by Julia Leslie. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
31. L'Hernault, Françoise 1978 L'Iconographie de Subrahmanya au Tamilnad. Pondichéry: Institut français d'Indologie
32. 1993 "Tiruvannamalai." In Temple Towns of Tamil Nadu, 40-57. Ed. by George Michell. Bombay: Marg
33. Mahalingam, T. V. 1967 "The Cult of Śakti in Tamilnad." In The Śakti Cult and Tārā, 17-33. Ed. by D. C. Sircar. Calcutta: University of Calcutta
34. Meister, Michael W. 1998 "Sweetmeats or Corpses?" In Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History. Ed. by John E. Cort. Albany: State University of New York Press
35. Mishra, R. N. 1975 "Yakshinī Images and Mātrkā Tradition in Central India." Prachya Pratibha 3/1: 29-34
36. Mitra, Debala 1975 Udayagiri and Khandagiri. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India
37. Monius, Anne E. 2001 Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India. New York: Oxford University Press
38. Narayanan, Vasudha 2000 "Religious Vocabulary and Regional Identity: A Study of the Tamil Cirappuranam." In Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, 74-97. Ed. by David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida
39. Orr, Leslie C. 1999a "Garlands, Lamps, and Drums: Temple Worship and Medieval South Indian Society." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Asian Studies Society, South Asia Council, Montreal
40. 1999b "Jain Worship in Medieval Tamilnadu." In Approaches to Jaina Studies: Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols, 250-274. Ed. by N. K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnstrom. Toronto: Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto
41. 1999c "Women's Wealth and Worship: Female Patronage of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in Medieval Tamilnadu." In Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India, 124-147. Ed. by Mandakranta Bose. New York: Oxford University Press
42. 2000 "Mapping Movement through Social and Sacred Space in Medieval Tamilnadu." Paper presented at the 36th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies, Montreal
43. Padma, Sree 2001 "From Village to City: Transforming Goddesses in Urban Andhra Pradesh." In Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, 115-143. Ed. by Tracy Pintchman. Albany: State University of New York Press
44. Pattaviramin, P. Z. 1975 Sanctuaires Ruprestres de l'Inde du Sud. Pondichéry: Institut français d'Indologie
45. Ramachandran, T. N. 1934 "Tiruparuttikunram and Its Temples." Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum n.s.-general section, vol. I, part 3
46. Richman, Paula 1997 Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press
47. Saheb, S. A. A. 1998 "A 'Festival of Flags': Hindu-Muslim Devotion and the Sacralising of Localism at the Shrine of Nagore-e-Sharif in Tamil Nadu." In Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults, 55-76. Ed. by P. Werbner and H. Basu. London: Routledge
48. Schmid, Charlotte Forthcoming "Mahisāsuramardinī: A Vaisnava Goddess?" In Chidambaram Seminar Papers. Ed. by R. Nagaswamy
49. Schopen, Gregory 1988 "On Monks, Nun and 'Vulgar' Practices: The Introduction of the Image Cult into Indian Buddhism." Artibus Asiae 49/1-2:153-168
50. Shah, Umakant P. 1987 Jaina-Rūpa-Mandana, vol. 1. New Delhi: Abhinav
51. Shanmugan, P. 1983 "The Saptamatri Cult during Chola Times." In Śrīnidhiúh: Perspectives in Indian Archaeology, Art and Culture, 257-260. Ed. by K. V. Raman, et al. Madras: New Era Publications
52. Shulman, David Dean 1980 Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Śaiva Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press
53. Sivaramamurti, C. 1961 Kalugumalai and Early Pandyan Rock-Cut Shrines. Bombay: N. M. Tripathi
54. 1983 Panorama of Jain Art. New Delhi: Times of India
55. Soundara Rajan, K. V. 1975 "Deccan and South India." In Jaina Art And Architecture, vol. 2, 310-332. Ed. by A. Ghosh. New Delhi: Bharātīya Jñānapītha
56. Srinivasan, K. R. 1960 Some Aspects of Religion as Revealed by Early Monuments and Literature of the South. Madras: University of Madras
57. 1975 "South India." In Jaina Art And Architecture, vol. 2, 207-230. Ed. by A. Ghosh. New Delhi: Bhāratīya Jñānapītha
58. Subramaniam, T. N. 1958-59 "Pallankōvil Framentary Jaina Copper-Plate Grant of Early Chōla Period." Transactions of the Archaeological Society of South India, 84-110
59. Suresh Pillai, B. 1968 "The Raajaraajeesvaram at Tañcaavuur." In Proceedings of the First International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies, vol. 1,438-447. Kuala Lampur: International Association of Tamil Research
60. Tartakov, Gary Michael, and Vidya Dehejia 1984 "Sharing, Intrusion, Influence: The Mahisāsuramardinī Imagery of the Calukyas and the Pallavas." Artibus Asiae 45: 287-345
61. Whitehead, Henry [1921] 1983 The Village Gods of South India. 2d ed. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications
62. Zydenbos, Robert J. 1993 "The Concept of Divinity in Jainism." The 1992 Roop Lai Jain Lecture. Toronto: Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto