Rajyasri : Royal Splendour in the Vedas and the Epics
This thesis analyses the late-Vedic goddess Śrī and her non-personified precedent śrī ‘splendour, glory, excellence, fortune’. Śrī has not before been studied in the light of the Avestan royal splendour, xᵛarənah, and is often interpreted one-sidedly as a pre-Aryan goddess of prosperity. In contrast...
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Stockholms universitet, Religionshistoria
2014
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-115509 |