Folk culture, folk religion and oral traditions as a component in Maharashtrian culture
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bhakti traditions
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folk etymologies
heroic ballads
Maharashtrian culture
various facets
yaksas tutelary gods
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- ISBN 9788173040870
- Dimensions: 165 x 245mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of papers addresses various facets of Maharashtrian culture like yaksas tutelary gods of rulers folklore themes like cows bulls folk etymologies.
Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer (1934-1992) began his contribution to our understanding of Indian culture with work on classical Hindu law (dharma-sastra) in the early 1960s. His strong interest in the normative thought of Hinduism eventually led to a major study of Hindu ethics in 1980. At the same time, the archaic world-views contained in the ancient legal texts inspired Sontheimer to go to the sources of Indian religiosity in the cults of equally ancient folk deities. He tought history of religion in South Asia at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University.
