The Devī Gītā Dr Marie-Odile BancalThis translation and commentary on an important Hindu text on the Great Goddess envisions a universe created and protected by a compassionate female deity. This book provides a translation, with introduction, commentary, and annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the Goddess). It is an important but not well known text from the rich SAakta (Goddess) tradition of India. The Devi Gita was composed about the fifteenth
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