From Mātr̥ to Yoginī. Continuity and Transformation in the South Asian Cults of the Mother Goddesses

Hatley, Shaman

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“…Suffice it to say, both the yoginīs and Mahāvidyās are linked with mātr . kas (or mothers) in Sankritic and folk traditions (see Hatley 2012;Mahalakshmi 2014, pp. 201-2).…”

Section: Chinnamastā Yoginī(s) and Jogan ī Mātāmentioning

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Can Tantra Make a Mātā Middle-Class?: Jogaṇī Mātā, a Uniquely Gujarati Chinnamastā

Dinnell¹

2017

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Abstract:The Gujarati mātās, village goddesses traditionally popular among scheduled castes and often worshipped through rites of possession and animal sacrifice, have recently acquired Sanskritic Tantric resonances. The contemporary iconography of the goddess Jogan .ī Mātā, for instance, is virtually identical to that of the Mahāvidyā Chinnamastā. Yantra and mantra also feature prominently in Jogan .ī worship, which has begun to attract upwardly mobile urban middle-class devotees. Drawing on ethnography from three Jogan .ī sites in and around Ahmedabad, this paper identifies a tendency among worshippers and pūjārīs to acknowledge Jogan .ī 's tantric associations only to the extent that they instantiate a safe, Sanskritic, and Brahmanically-oriented Tantra. The appeal of these temples and shrines nonetheless remains the immediacy with which Jogan .ī can solve problems that are this-worldly, reminiscent of the link identified by Philip Lutgendorf between Tantra and modern Indians' desire for 'quick-fix' religion. This research not only documents a rare regional iteration of Chinnamastā, but also speaks to the cachet that Tantra increasingly wields, consciously or unconsciously, within the burgeoning Gujarati and Indian urban middle-classes.

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“…Suffice it to say, both the yoginīs and Mahāvidyās are linked with mātr . kas (or mothers) in Sankritic and folk traditions (see Hatley 2012;Mahalakshmi 2014, pp. 201-2).…”

Section: Chinnamastā Yoginī(s) and Jogan ī Mātāmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Tantra Make a Mātā Middle-Class?: Jogaṇī Mātā, a Uniquely Gujarati Chinnamastā

Dinnell¹

2017

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“…For an introduction I recommend Shaman Hatley's recent overview (Hatley 2012). Seminal treatises on the subject include those by Michael Meister (1986), Katherine Anne Harper (1989) and Shivaji K. Panikkar (1997).…”

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The Badoh-Pathari Saptamātṛ Panel Inscription

Balogh

2019

Indo-Iran. J.

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Located in Vidisha District, Madhya Pradesh, the area of Badoh-Pathari is home to a rock shelter with a sculpted panel depicting seven mother goddesses. A weathered inscription next to the sculptures was reported as early as 1926. The inscription is dateable to the fifth century on the basis of its palaeography and the art-historical dating of the site. Though partly effaced beyond hope of decipherment, roughly half of the text can be read with confidence, while some of the rest may be restored conjecturally, and some speculatively. The epigraph pays homage to Rudra and Skanda in addition to the Mothers themselves, and is thus a key resource concerning mātṛ worship in the Gupta period. It mentions the otherwise unknown local ruler Jayatsena of Avamukta (a region also named in the Allahabad pillar inscription), and may refer to the reign of Kumāragupta (I).

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“…Most of the groundbreaking scholarship in the field has been on the Tantric or initiatory forms of Śaivism. For two recent surveys, see Hatley 2010 andIsaacson 2011. The lay, non-initiatory forms of the religion, by contrast, have received considerably less attention, with the significant exception of the work done in the framework of the critical edition of the Skandapurāṇa.…”

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Universal Śaivism

Bisschop¹

2018

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From Mātr̥ to Yoginī. Continuity and Transformation in the South Asian Cults of the Mother Goddesses

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Can Tantra Make a Mātā Middle-Class?: Jogaṇī Mātā, a Uniquely Gujarati Chinnamastā

Can Tantra Make a Mātā Middle-Class?: Jogaṇī Mātā, a Uniquely Gujarati Chinnamastā

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