mokshamargasya netaram bhettaram karmabhubhrtam
jñataram vishvatattvanam vande tadgunalabdhaye

Jaya Jinendra

THE INDIAN MOTHER GODDESS (English)
Third Enlarged Edition
By N.N. Bhattacharya
1990 220 x 140 mm 364 pp
81 7304 324 8 Hardback Rs. 550

This work was serialised in an historical journal, "Indian Studies-Past,
Present and Future". Published first in 1970, this is the enlarged and
revised third edition. The author, N.N. Bhattacharya is an eminent
Indologist and author of many well-known works.

The book has the following chapters:

1. INTRODUCTION
Development of the Conception
Mother Goddess and the Cults of Ritual & Fertility
Mother Goddess and Agricultural Myths
Mother Goddess and Female Dominated Societies

2. THE MOTHERS : FORMS OF THE CULT
Earth and Corn Mothers
The Protectress of Children
The City Goddesses
The Goddesses of the Animal World
The Goddesses of Disease
The War Goddesses
The Goddesses of Mountains, Lakes & Rivers
The Bloodthirsty Goddesses
The Tribal Divinities

3. MOTHER GODDESSES IN LITERARY & MYTHOLOGICAL
RECORDS
Prologue
Goddesses of Egypt & Western Asia
Goddesses of Greece & Asia Minor
Goddesses of Mesopotamia & Iran
Goddesses in the Vedic Literature of India
Goddesses in the Epics
Goddesses in Jaina and Buddhist Literature
Goddesses in South Indian Literature
Goddesses in the Puranas
Goddesses in Other Literary Works
Goddesses in Some Epigraphic Records

4. MOTHER GODDESSES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
The Earliest Archaeological Specimens
The Harappan Goddess and her Western Counterpart
The Vedic and Post-Vedic Cults
Specialisations : The Gupta Age
Mahishamardini and Other Forms of Durga
Uma, Parvati, etc.
Laxmi and Sarasvati
Matrkas, Yoginis, etc.
Other Forms of Goddesses and their Shrines
Buddhist and Jaina Goddesses

5. MOTHER GODDESSES & ADVANCED RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS
Mother Goddess and Christianity
Mother Goddess and Taoism
Mother Goddess and Buddhism
Mother Goddess and Vaishnavism
Mother Goddess and Shaivism
Mother Goddess and Tantric Shaktism

APPENDICES

A. Regional Distribution of the Goddess Cult
B. The Female-Dominated Societies
C. Fertility Rites as the Basis of Tantricism
D. The Realm of Kamakhya
E. A List of Important Puranic Goddesses

Bibliography
Index

|| sarvatra shubhamastu ||
Manish

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