The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1

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The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1 is written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226340457 (ISBN 10) and 9780226340456 (ISBN 13).

This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual, and dramatic forms. Draupadi, the chief heroine of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, takes on many unexpected guises in her Tamil cult, but her dimensions as a folk goddess remain rooted in a rich interpretive vision of the great epic. By examining the ways that the cult of Draupadi commingles traditions about the goddess and the epic, Alf Hiltebeitel shows the cult to be singularly representative of the inner tensions and working dynamics of popular devotional Hinduism.