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ISBN | 9789385360558 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Bib. Info | 176 pages; 143 illustrations; 30cm |
Product Weight | 1250 gms. |
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The Pushtimarg, or the Path of Grace, is a Hindu tradition whose ritual worship of the deity Krishna has developed in close relationship to a distinct genre of early-modern Hindi prose hagiography. This volume introduces readers to the most popular hagiographic text of the Pushtimarg, the Chaurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta, or “Narratives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas,” which tells the sacred life stories of the community’s first preceptor Vallabhacharya (1497– 1531) and his most beloved disciples. This book focuses on the only extant Chaurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta manuscript dated to the beginning of the 18 century, now in artist Amit Ambalal’s collection. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of Indian art and literature, to those who have grown up in the Pushtimarg tradition, and more broadly to those with an appreciation for the distinct ways in which pictures can tell stories that unite the everyday with intimate experiences of the Divine.