| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) : illustrations |
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UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
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| Contents |
Major and minor: Hanuman in Hindu life and scholarly discourse -- A long and winding tail: Hanuman in history and historiography -- Prayers, recipes, memoirs: Hanuman in Hindi popular literature -- The Hanumāyana: forty tales of Hanuman -- A reader's guide to the Hanumāyana -- Sitings and sightings: Hanuman in the cultural landscape -- Like mother, like son: Hanuman, goddesses, and women -- Monkey in the middle: Hanuman and his kin in transcultural discourse |
| Summary |
Philip Lutgendorf examines Hindu popular literature, art, and ritual, and shows that Hanuman is perhaps the most beloved deity in the Hindu pantheon. He traces the history of Hanuman's character, teases out the many variations on the story, and examines the sources of his enormous appeal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-423) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Hanumān (Hindu deity)
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Hanumān (Hindu deity) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Hanumān (Hindu deity) fast (OCoLC)fst00951117 |
| Subject |
Hindu literature, Hindi -- History and criticism
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- Theology.
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Hindu literature, Hindi.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006045391 |
| ISBN |
9781435619708 |
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1435619706 |
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9780198042204 |
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0198042205 |
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9786611163457 |
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661116345X |
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