{"product_id":"haribhaktivilasa-of-sanatana-gosvamin-volume-one-mantras-initiation-and-preparing-for-worship-chapters-1-5-critical-edition-and-annotated-translation-9789004532809","title":"Haribhaktivilāsa of Sanātana Gosvāmin, Volume One: Mantras, Initiation and Preparing for Worship (Chapters 1–5). Critical Edition and Annotated Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSanātana Gosvāmin’s Haribhaktivilāsa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition begun by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486–1533) it presents a fascinating meeting between this ecstatic new religious movement and older, Brahminical tradition.   On the basis of eleven manuscripts, this important text has now been for the first time been critically edited. In his extensive introduction, Måns Broo engages with many of the questions that have vexed earlier scholars of this text (such as who really was the author?) by exploring its extensive intertextualities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Introduction   1 Introduction to the Text   2 Who Wrote the Haribhaktivilāsa?   3 Summary of Contents   4 Style and Method of the Text and Commentary   5 Historical Context of the Haribhaktivilāsa   6 The Theology of the Haribhaktivilāsa   7 Intertextualities   8 The Haribhaktivilāsa in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava History   9 Sources for the Critical Edition   10 Conventions in the Critical Apparatus and Translation    Critically Edited Text and Translation    1 On the Guru   Declaration of Contents   The Reason for Approaching a Guru   Approaching a Guru   The Mandatoriness of Approaching a Guru   Specific Characteristics of a Guru   Characteristics of a Non-guru   Characteristics of a Disciple   Those to Be Rejected   Observation   Specific Rules for Serving the Guru   The Great Sin That Otherwise Will Befall Both   The Disciple’s Prayer   The Greatness of the Lord   The Greatness of Vaiṣṇava Mantras   There, the Greatness of the Twelve-Syllable and the Eight-Syllable Mantras   There Also, That Of The Twelve-Syllable Mantra   Of the Eight-syllable Mantra   That of the King of Mantras, the Anuṣṭubh of Śrī Narasiṃha   The Greatness of Mantras of Rama   The Greatness of Mantras of Lord Gopāla   The Greatness of the Eighteen-Syllable Mantra   Deliberation on Eligibility   The Determination of Siddha, Sādhya and so on   Mantras That Are an Exception to This   Purification of Mantras    2 On Initiation   Rules for Initiation   The Mandatoriness of Initiation   The Greatness of Initiation   The Time for Initiation   Consideration of Days   Consideration of Lunar Mansions   Consideration of Lunar Days   Exceptions   Rules for Constructing the Pavilion   Rules for Fashioning the Pit   Rules for the Initiatory Maṇḍala   The Worship That Is a Part of Initiation   First, the Procedure for Establishing the Waterpot   Rules for Establishing the Conch   Rules for Worshipping the Lord in the Waterpot   Rules for the Initiatory Fire Sacrifice   The Divinities of the Limbs   The Eight Forms   Measures for the Ingredients of the Fire Offerings   Rules for Guru and Disciple   These Were the Duties of the Preceding Day. Now the Duties of the Day of Initiation   Rules for the Anointment   The Mantra of Ceremonial Bathing   Rules for Imparting the Mantra   The Regulations   The Procedure for Initiation in the Blessed Varāha Purāṇa   Simplified Initiation   Instruction   The Greatness of Bestowing the Mantra    3 On Purification   The Mandatoriness of Worship for the Initiated   Sadācāra   The Mandatoriness of Sadācāra   The Greatness of Sadācāra   Daily Duties   The Morning Glorification and Remembrance   First: The Mandatoriness of Remembrance   The Greatness of Remembrance   It Surpasses Bathing at All Tīrthas   It Is Supremely Purifying   It Uproots Sins   It Liberates One from All Misfortune   It Uproots Bad Habits   It Causes All Auspiciousness   It Bestows the Fruits of All Holy Observances   It Causes the Excellence of Rituals   It Surpasses All Rituals   It Removes All Fears   It Awards Liberation   It Propitiates the Lord   It Leads One to the Vaikuṇṭha World   It Leads to Sameness of Form   It Subdues the Blessed Lord   It Is the Highest Fruit in Itself   Morning Obeisances   The Prayer   Words of Obeisance   The Morning Meditation   The Greatness of Meditation   It Destroys Sins   It Removes the Faults of the Kali Age   It Gives One Eligibility for All Rituals   It Affords One Liberation   It Brings One to Vaikuṇtha   It Leads to Sameness of Form   It Awards the Highest Fruit on Its Own Accord   Waking the Blessed Lord   Removing Nirmālya   Cleansing the Blessed Mouth   The Greatness of Offering the Blessed Tooth-Twig   The Auspicious Nīrājana   The Preliminaries of the Morning Bath   Rules for Attending to the Call of Nature   Rules for Cleansing   When Only Passing Urine   Rules for Ācamana   Vaiṣṇava Ācamana   Rules for Brushing the Teeth   The Mandatoriness of Brushing the Teeth   Days When the Tooth-Twig Is Forbidden   The Substitute for These Days   The Exception to This   Tooth-Twigs   Arranging the Hair and so Forth   Bathing   The Mandatoriness of Bathing   The Greatness of Bathing   Rules for Bathing   A Detail   Further Details   The Mantra for Taking the Lord’s Foot-Water on the Head   The Greatness of Sprinkling Oneself with the Lord’s Foot-Water   And Its Mandatoriness   The General Libation to the Gods and Others   Vedic Sandhyā   Tantric Sandhyā   Its Rules   The Kāma Gāyatrī   Another Opinion on the Rules for Tantric Sandhyā   Rules for Worship of the Lord in Water   Specific Libations to the Gods and Others   Considering the Proper Attitude at Bathing and so on    4 On the Ornaments of the Vaiṣṇava   Cleaning the Lord’s Temple   The Greatness of Cleaning the Temple   The Greatness of Plastering   The Greatness of Sprinkling   The Greatness of Maṇḍalas   Characteristics of a Svastika   Hoisting Flags, Banners and so on   The Greatness of Hoisting Flags   The Greatness of Hoisting Banners   The Greatness of Raising Festoons of Leaves and Trunks of Banana Trees   Cleaning the Seat, Vessels, Clothes and so on   The Seat   Metal Vessels   Clothes and so on   Grains and so on   Picking Flowers, Tulasī and so on for the Sake of Worship   Rules for Bathing at Home   Bathing with Warm Water   The Forbidden Days   Bathing with Myrobalan   Bathing with Sesame   Bathing with Oil   The Greatness of Anointing with Tulasī Water   Rules for Wearing Clothes   The Seat   Rules for the Seat   The Rules for the Twelve Tilakas   The Crown Mantra   The Mandatoriness of the Vertical Marks   The Greatness of the Vertical Mark   Rules for Drawing the Vertical Mark   The Mandatoriness of the Empty Middle Portion of the Vertical Mark   Therefore, the Statement on the Characteristics of Hari’s Temple   Regarding the Rules for Which Fingers to Use When Applying Tilaka   The Types of Clay for the Vertical Mark   There, the Greatness of Gopīcandana   The Greatness of the Vertical Mark Made with Gopīcandana   The Greatness of Marks Made with Mud from the Roots of Tulasī   The Mandatoriness of Wearing the Mudrās   The Greatness of Wearing the Mudrās   Rules for Wearing the Mudrās   Characteristics of the Disc and so on   Wearing Mālās and so on   Rules for Wearing Mālās   The Mandatoriness of Wearing Mālās   The Greatness of Wearing Mālās   Rules for Performing Sandhyā at Home   Worship of the Blessed Guru   The Greatness of the Blessed Guru   The Exception to This   The Result of Not Devoting Oneself to the Guru    5 On the Objects   Worship at the Gate   Worship Inside the House   The Seat for Worship   The Seat Mantra   Seats   Specific Faults and Merits of Seats   Placing the Vessels   The Vessels and Their Greatness   Establishing the Auspicious Pitcher   The Ingredients for Arghya and so on   The Auspicious Peace   Removal of Obstacles   Bowing to the Blessed Gurus   Bhūtaśuddhi   And This is the Procedure   Prāṇāyāma   The Greatness of Prāṇāyāma   First, Mātṛkā Nyāsa   The Inner Mātṛkā Nyāsa   Keśavādi Nyāsa   The Meditation   The Blessed Forms   The Śaktis   Tattva Nyāsa   A Further Special Form of Prāṇāyāma   The Times, Numbers and so on   Pīṭha Nyāsa   The Pīṭha Mantra   Remembering the Sage and so on   Aṅga Nyāsa   Akṣara Nyāsa   Pada Nyāsa   Rṣyādi Nyāsa   The Five Mudrās   Procedure for Meditating on the Blessed Lord   The Inner Sacrifice   The Procedure for Prayer   Establishing the Conch   Worship of the Seat in One’s Own Body   Mantra Aṅga Nyāsa, Etc., on the Limbs of the Lord   Internal Worship with External Items   The Greatness of the Internal Sacrifice   The External Worship   The Objects of Worship   The Blessed Forms   Characteristics of the Blessed Forms   The Twenty-Four Forms of the Siddhārta Saṃhitā   The Śālagrāma Stones   Their Merits and Faults Connected with Colour and so on   And These Faults Relate to Worshipping with Desires   Their Different Names Depending on Their Different Characteristics   The Greatness of the Śālagrāma Stone   The Special Result of Worshipping Many   The Prohibition against Buying or Selling Them   The Prohibition against Installation   The Best of All Objects   The Mandatoriness of Worshipping the Śālagrāma Stone   The Greatness of Uniting the Śālagrāma Stone with the Stone Marked with the Discs of Dvārakā   The Characteristics of the Stone Marked with the Discs of Dvārakā   The Greatness of the Stone Marked with the Discs of Dvārakā   Their Different Fruits according to Their Different Number of Discs   Faults and Merits and Whether to Worship or Not Depending on Colour and so on    Appendix 1: The Greatness of the Ten-Syllable Mantra  Appendix 2: The Meditation on Kṛṣṇa in Gautamīya Tantra 10.142cd–159ab  Appendix 3: Maṇḍalas in the Text  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default 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