The Cult of the Goddess Pattini Routledge Penance and marriage of Sankhacuda

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Jan Nattier is an associate professor of Buddhist studies at Indiana University

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Visakhapatnam where Murty had studied and taught throughout his teaching career of more than thirty-five years

The Cult of the Goddess Pattini Routledge Penance and marriage of SankhacudaPattini goddess, virgin, wife, and mother; folk deity of Sinhala Buddhists and Jains; and assimilated goddess of the Hindu pantheon has been worshiped in Sri Lanka and South India for fifteen hundred years or more, as she still is today. This long awaited book is the culmination Gananath Obeyesekeres comprehensive study of the Pattini cult and its historical, sociological, and psychoanalytical role in the culture of South Asia. A well known