Book Summary
Stories about Posts is the magnum opus of Madeleine Biardeau, one of the most influential Indologists of the twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, it connects her varied studies on the Sanskrit epics, the Hindu Goddess, Vedic sacrifice, rural India, and the interpretation of Hinduism. After exploring several ethnographic facts that have escaped the notice of previous observers, Biardeau presents a variety of hunches, hypotheses, and insights building up to the provocative thesis of Stories about Posts: that the variations found in the contemporary cult of the Goddess
Book Details
| Book Name | Stories About Posts: Vedic Variations Around The Hindu Goddess |
| Author | Biardeau, Madeleine Biardeau, Hiltebeitel |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press (Jul 2004) |
| ISBN | 9780226045955 |
| Pages | 360 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1821 |
