“This is the truth - the truth without doubt”: Textual authority and the enabling of “true” discourse in the Hindu narrative tradition of the Śivapurāṇa
In contrast with the major theistic religions, the highly decentralized Hindu traditions, for much of their history, lacked a single external authority capable of imposing standards of orthodoxy or heterodoxy on all parts of the fold. The major normative texts known as purāṇa are the source-books of...
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| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2008
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2008, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-81 |
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Saiva textual traditions
B Sivapurana B 'true' discourse |
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