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In Narmadaparikrama. Circumambulation of the Narmada River Jurgen Neuss offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the Narmadaparikrama, a singular Hindu pilgrimage, which comprises the complete circumambulation of the Central Indian river Narmada. Following a brief general introduction, the first part of the book comprises a text-historical analysis of the Sanskrit texts which are traditionally regarded as the basis for this rite. The second part represents a synoptic translation of two modern pilgrims' handbooks in Hindi, which link the mythological place names of the Sanskrit texts with actual geographical locations. Part three consists of synopses of available Sanskrit source texts, and the concluding part summarizes the many-fold findings and results of the study in thematically arranged maps.

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'Overall, however, the book as the first comprehensive study of the Narmadaparikrama opens up many important areas of research, and may be used profitably by any student of Mahatmya literature, an important but still understudied genre of literature, and HIndu pilgrimage at large.' Just Boedeker, Berlin, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 110, 4-5 (2015)

'Overall, however, the book as the first comprehensive study of the Narmadaparikrama opens up many important areas of research, and may be used profitably by any student of Mahatmya literature, an important but still understudied genre of literature, and HIndu pilgrimage at large.' Just Boedeker, Berlin, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 110, 4-5 (2015)

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Jurgen Neuss, Ph.D. (2007), studied Indology at Berlin and Allahabad. He worked at Free University Berlin from 2000-2010, until the closure of the Indological Department was finalized. He has published a number of articles on different indological subjects.

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