Setting the Literary and Ritual Scene in Eighteenth‐Century Bengal
Setting the Literary and Ritual Scene in Eighteenth‐Century Bengal
Introduces the textual and ceremonial influences on the emerging Hindu Śākta literature in eighteenth‐century Bengal. It traces the Sanskrit and Bengali textual precedents, and Vaiṣṇavism. It then looks at the ritual and devotional practices of the era.
Keywords: Bengal, Bengali, ceremony, Hinduism, history, India, poetry, ritual, Śāktism, Sanskrit, Vaiṣṇavism
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