Nectar gaze and poison breath : an analysis and translation of the Rajasthani oral narrative of Devnārāyaṇ /

Offers a study of "Devnarayan ki par", along with an English translation of this Rajasthani oral narrative. Using the narrative, this book explores a range of questions relevant to the study of Indian folk culture and Hinduism as a whole: how is orality conceptualized and practiced? What i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malik, Aditya
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English; includes translation from Marwari.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Analysis: Verbal narrative ; Visual narrative ; Textual narrative ; Historical narrative ; Social narrative ; Divine testimony.
  • Translation.
  • Line drawing of paṛ.