Which of the 18 Major Puranas is the "Devi Bhagavad Purana"?

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Thanks for that, Colin!

 

Your posts are always tantalizing -- filled with fresh

perspectives, original thinking and hinting at new and

untapped sources of inspiration. For instance, I had

no idea about any of the books you just mentioned --

and would love to hear as much about them as you are

willing and able to share!

 

For starters, let me ask you this: Brown was referring

strictly to the "Great Goddess" tradition in the

comment I quoted; i.e. Devi as Brahman, the One

without a second, etc. Do the books you mention have

this concentration also? Because Brown acknowledges

that the Puranas -- especially the late Puranas --

were very much influenced by Shaktism; however, that

Devi is only given absolute *supremacy* in the Devi

Mahatmyam and Devi Bhagavata Purana. In the others, he

says, she is either relegated to consort or otherwise

subordinated to a male deity, however subtly.

 

On another subject, I've found a few interesting new

passages on the "permissible" bhavas in approaching

Devi as a bhakta. I'll try and get those up this week;

would love to hear your perspective. Some of your

great posts on the subject went when the Club was

destroyed, but I'm pretty sure Nora has them archived

somewhere. I'd love to get that discussion back on

track again.

 

Aum Maatangyai Namahe

 

--- colinr wrote:

> devi_bhakta wrote:

>

> >C. MacKenzie Brown, a scholar of the Devi Bhagavata

> Purana (and author

> >of the best English translation of the "Devi Gita")

> notes:

> >"With the exception of the Devi Mahatmyam

> [contained in] the

> >Markandeya Purana, the 'Great Purana' tradition

> seems to overlook the

> >Great Goddess, however much, in its later phases,

> it may have been

> >influenced by Shakta ideas."

>

> Actually there is a lot more praise of the Goddess

> in the 'Great Puranas'

> than C. MacKenzie Brown seems to know. I'd mention

> the Lalita Mahatmyam in

> the Brahmanda Purana; the Uma Samhita of the Shiva

> Purana; and the Prakriti

> Khanda of the Brahma-Vaivarta Purana.

>

> Om Shantih,

>

> Colin

>

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>

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