Priest's Guide for the Great Festival Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi

Name: Priest's Guide for the Great Festival Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
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ISBN: 9780195378528

ISBN-10: 0195378520

ISBN-13: 9780195378528

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard H. Davis

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The Mahotsavavidhi, a twelfth-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Saiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival" for the god Siva. The author, Aghorasiva, is one of the most esteemed and influential authors in the Saiva Siddhanta school, and his lengthy work on ritual procedures, Kriyakramadyotika, (of which the Mahotsavavidhi is a part), is by all accounts the Agama work most employed by modern temple priests and pious Saivas in their practice of worship. Richard Davis's translation of this important text is the first translation into a European language of any medieval work on temple festivals. Because the text was intended for an expert audience of…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English