PDNRL No. 31 Marzenna Czerniak-Drozdzowicz: Pāñcarātra Scripture in the Process of Change. A Study of the Paramasaṃhitā. Vienna 2003, 226p. EUR 23.-
Contents
Reviews
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Preface (7)
Bibliography and Abbreviations (11)
I. The Text and its Structure (27)
1. The Text (27)
2. The Structure (34)
II. Theological-Philosophical Ideas of the Paramasaṃhitā (101)
1. God (101)
1.1. Forms of God (101)
1.2. God’s Creating of the World (108)
sṛṣṭi and saṃhāra (108)
1.3. God Granting Grace (118)
1.4. God’s Idol in the Temple (128)
2. The Soul (jīva) (129)
2.1. Nature of the Soul and its Place in saṃsāra (129)
2.2. The Way of Salvation (132)
dīkṣā (132)
dhyāna/yoga (153)
bhakti (169)
III. The Daily Religious Obligations of the Devotee (185)
1. samaya (186)
2. samācāra (188)
3. svādhyāya (191)
4. dravyasaṃgraha and śuddhi (193)
5. ārādhana (yāga) (196)
yāgapīṭha, the sacrificial throne (204)
ārādhana (207)
6. stuti (211)
7. dhyāna (212)
8. pañcakālavidhi versus vidhir aṣṭadhā (215)
List of Translations from Sanskrit (221)
General Index (223)