- Tytuł:
- The Chejarla temple myth revisited : self-decapitation in medieval Andhra
- Autorzy:
- Sudyka, Lidia
- Opis:
- In 2013 I published an article devoted to the myth connected with the Kapoteśvara temple in Chejarla, a small village in the Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. My attention was mainly focused on the comparison of the foundation myth of the Kapoteśvara temple with different versions of the Śibi story. I stated that the legend could be treated as showing the change and continuity of the idea of the sacredness of this particular place, which may have been in continuous use during the megalithic period, through the Buddhist phase, right up to its incorporation into Hindu worship (Sudyka 2013). It seems that Chejarla narrative contains motifs which spread with the advent of Buddhism in Andhra. These motifs, however, have been “localized”, i.e. settled in the local culture, landscape, and practices of human actors. The present paper studies self-decapitation as a motif found in the temple myth and represented by the liṅga venerated at this particular shrine.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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