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Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – IV
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Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – IV

Sthaneshwar Timalsina- January 15, 2018

The text evolves on the framework of Trika, that the self or Śiva as simultaneously immanent and transcendent, the union of Śiva and Śakti in ... Read More

Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – III
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Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – III

Sthaneshwar Timalsina- January 13, 2018

The commixture of literary tropes comes to its pinnacle in verse 68. A commentator points out that this verse contains the commixture (saṅkara) of metaphor ... Read More

Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – II
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Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – II

Sthaneshwar Timalsina- January 6, 2018

The significance and centrality of the divine body in Saundaryalaharī is vivid, particularly in the second part, where the limbs and ornaments of the goddess ... Read More

Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – I
Archives, Indology

Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – I

Sthaneshwar Timalsina- January 4, 2018

The philosophical foundation for the rise of this Śākta paradigm breaks the dichotomy between the immanent and transcendent. Tripurā is beyond the triad and thus ... Read More