Devi Mahatmya Ram Lal Kapoor Trust All such distinguished talents and

All such distinguished talents and attainments of his have been fully and quite successfully commissioned in the preparation of this marvellous encyclopaedia

no matter how much effort they put forth

be rational

The implication of this position is that empirical errors can be transcended only in a larger and profounder empiricism

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Devi Mahatmya Ram Lal Kapoor Trust All such distinguished talents andThe Devi Mitheitmya is well known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. Composed some 1500 years ago, it is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.