The Lajjagauri and Anandanayaki

Name: The Lajjagauri and Anandanayaki
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A New Light on the Nature and Worship of the Adi-Mata, the Primordial Mother

Written by Jayant Bhalcandra Bapa? and Ramacandra Cintama? ?here

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Lajjāgaurī is perhaps one of India’s oldest goddesses, with images of her found in South Asia dating back to the Indus Civilisation c. 3000 to 1500 B.C.E. Her devotees can be traced back even earlier, to the Ukraine c. 10,000 B.C.E. In India, new finds continue to expand the geographical spread of Lajjāgaurī’s devotees, most recently to Odiśā. Ḍhere’s work on Lajjāgaurī – a study of the meanings of the visual representations of the Goddess – is based on a tireless pursuit of her image throughout western India. In contrast to the other thousands of Indian goddesses whose images are superabundant, Lajjāgaurī has become more reclusive as other deities have risen. This work by the towering Marāṭhī cultural specialist Dr Rāmacandra Cintāmaṇ Ḍhere is a unique and important study, painstakingly and lovingly translated into English by Dr Jayant Bāpaṭ.

Known popularly as Aṇṇā, Ḍhere was a prolific writer on many aspects of religion in India and on Indian folk culture, especially that of Mahārāṣṭra. He was second to none in the study of ancient Marāṭhī and Saṃskṛt literature and was responsible for bringing to light many rare and lost manuscripts. Ḍhere produced over a hundred books on the religion of the masses. Often working with dense and obscure subject matter, such was Ḍhere’s poetic style of writing that it attracted not only the literati but the average reader as well. Unfortunately, he wrote mainly in Marāṭhī, and occasionally in Hindi. For the first time, this translation makes Ḍhere’s enlightened study of the mother goddess available to English readers, in a substantial contribution to the field.

ISBN-13: 9781925835243
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Publication date: 1 August 2020
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
Language: English