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Title |
Title of document |
11. Agriculture, Floriculture and Botanical Knowledge in a Middle Bengali Text - Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Fabrizio Ferrari; University of Chester; United Kingdom |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
plants in Asian religion; Hinduism; sacred nature of flora; trees in religion; plants as food; plants as medicine; plants in ritual and myth |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
South Asian Religions |
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Description |
Abstract |
The last chapter offers an overview of the botanical lore in Śūnyapurāṇ, a heterogeneous Bengali Śaiva text attributed to Rāmāi Paṇḍit and celebrating the god Dharmarāj, a figure overlapping with local forms of Śiva. In this work, Fabrizio Ferrari analyses the place of flowers in the worship of Dharmarāj, the birth of paddy (dhānyer janma) in the popular tale of the farming (kr̥ṣak) Śiva, and the auspicious song of the husking pedal (ḍheṅkīmaṅgalā), the vehicle of sage Nārada. The chapter naturally links with the preceding study and, by means of its focus on nature and devotion, also brings us full circle to connect with Chapter 1. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Jun-2016 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30838 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.30838 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Roots of Wisdom, Branches of Devotion |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Coverage |
Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Indian sub-continent |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |