The Iconic Female: Goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet

by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett

The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, divine lover, protector and/or bloodthirsty ogress. The more that is discovered about her, the more teasingly complex and multivalent the Devi appears. She is both constant and changing, loved and feared, worshipped and forgotten, only to be re-discovered and worshiped again. In this book, for the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1876924667
• ISBN13: 9781876924669
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Monash Asia Institute
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"