{"product_id":"manasa-the-indian-serpent-goddess-von-sabita-baishya-baruah","title":"MANASA: THE INDIAN SERPENT GODDESS","description":"\u003cp\u003eOphidiphobia was the foremost reason  that gave rise to imagination of the Indian  serpent goddess Manas¿, and thus came into  existence the ophiolatric cult of this deity in  course of time. The Manas¿ cult is in existence in  Assam since either the tenth or the eleventh  century. The tradition of reciting stories  eulogising the deity ultimately took the shape of  k¿vyas. The Manas¿mägals formed the oldest type of  the Mägalk¿byas penned in medieval Bengal. Manas¿  could easily prevail over the low caste populace.  Nevertheless, she had to withstand a lengthy strife  from the upper caste Hindus. This was the essence  of the Manas¿mägals. We shall uncover in this  book, links between the Assamese Manas¿k¿vyas and  the Bengali Manas¿mägals. We have found that the  dissimilarities between the Bengali Padm¿pur¿¿ and  the Assamese Sukn¿n¿ composed by N¿r¿yädev were in  the story line, while the similarities were in some  of the lines themselves. The similarities  are so  many that it can be concluded that the same person  must have written both of the k¿vyas and that  neither version was a copy of the other; one of  them was indeed adapted from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783843369039\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLinguistic and Literary Aspects of Assamese Manasakavya and Bengali Manasamangal A Comparative Study\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783843369039","offer_id":39497107800157,"sku":"9783843369039","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/90624d72-41b3-468f-bf80-de05ca109135.jpg?v=1775364163","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/manasa-the-indian-serpent-goddess-von-sabita-baishya-baruah","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}