3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments:  An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)

Glushkova, Irina

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“…harpūr or reverse (cf. Shima 1988;Stanley 1992;Glushkova 2015). 3 A beautifully detailed depiction of 'paduka' on a stone sculpture's feet is to be seen in the Odisha State Museum in 2 In this article, in which Indo-ethnography (a combination of ethnographic, textual and comparative approaches) moves between the Sanskrit of ancient texts, written Hindi, anglicized spelling inherited from the colonial era, and vernacular pronunciation, I use spelling suited to the particular contexts.…”

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Bare Feet and Sacred Ground: “Viṣṇu Was Here”

Nugteren¹

2018

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The meaning of a symbol is not intrinsic and should best be seen in relation to the symbolic order underlying it. In this article we explore the ritual complexities pertaining to the body’s most lowly and dirty part: the feet. On entering sacred ground persons are admonished to take off their footwear. In many parts of Asia pointing one’s feet in the direction of an altar, one’s teacher or one’s elders is considered disrespectful. Divine feet, however, are in many ways focal points of devotion. By reverently bowing down and touching the feet of a deity’s statue, the believer acts out a specific type of expressive performance. The core of this article consists of a closer look at ritualized behavior in front of a particular type of divine feet: the natural ‘footprint’ (viṣṇupāda) at Gayā, in the state of Bihar, India. By studying its ‘storied’ meaning we aspire to a deepened understanding of the ‘divine footprint’ in both its embodiedness and embeddedness. Through a combination of approaches—textual studies, ritual studies, ethnography—we emplace the ritual object in a setting in which regional, pan-Indian, and even cosmogonic myths are interlocked. We conclude that by an exclusive focus on a single ritual object—as encountered in a particular location—an object lesson about feet, footsteps, foot-soles, and footprints opens up a particular ‘grammar of devotion’ in terms of both absence and presence.

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Bare Feet and Sacred Ground: “Viṣṇu Was Here”

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2018

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Living Through Intense Yearning and Elated Bliss: Emotional Indoctrination in the Songs of Tukaram (Western India)

Glushkova

2018

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в новых индоарийских языках, включая маратхи, как и в древнеиндийском санскрите, а также в среднеиндийских диалектах, родовое слово для обозначения чувств/эмоций отсутствует. В качестве аналогов этих, не имеющих устойчивых дефиниций, понятий всё чаще фигурирует лексема bhāv(a), которая в разных значениях и оттенках широко задействована эстетической и теологической мыслью Индии. Bhāv(a) также является одним из ключевых понятий в средневековых модификациях индуизма, объединяемых общим термином бхакти, «соучастие/сопричастность», и понимаемых как «эмоциональный девоционализм». В маратхиязычном регионе Западной Индии эта вербально выраженная эмоциональность зафиксирована в мощной поэтической традиции (XIII-XVII вв.), которая воспевает бога Виттхала/ Витхобу/Пандуранга и остаётся источником воспитания правильных религиозных чувств в современной Махараштре.

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3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments:  An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)

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Living Through Intense Yearning and Elated Bliss: Emotional Indoctrination in the Songs of Tukaram (Western India)

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