Suttanipat Moolpali Tatha Hindi Anuvad D.P.B. Publications Courtly text and courting Sati

Courtly text and courting Sati Sati as Voluntary Sati as a positive construct Textual warrant: Resurrecting an eighteenth-century Sanskrit text Two voices framing Sati: Julia Leslie and Mary Daly Liberating texts: Roop Kanwar's Sati from Srivaisnava and other textual practices Liberating female texts and voices Concluding remarks Conclusion Replicating Orientalist constructions New Orientalists: Fashioning a monolith Hinduism Textualizing Hinduism Politicizing Hinduism Reframing Hinduism and forging an identity References Index

it has remained a classic up to modern times

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Sri Bappaka is certainly Bapa or Bappa the traditional founder of the Mewar dynasty which had at that time its capital at Nagda

I owe a special gratitude to my late father Ram Nath Kak who went over my translation of the verses and shared with me his unique knowledge of the Saiva tradition

Suttanipat Moolpali Tatha Hindi Anuvad D.P.B. Publications Courtly text and courting Sati