Mother of Power, Mother of Kings: Reading Royal Ideology in the Devī Māhātmya
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty2-004
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50B2-004
- Author or attribution
- Raj Balkaran
- Record type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2015
- Source / repository
- PhD thesis, Religious Studies, University of Calgary
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — Batch 2, November 2026; Scholarship and historical studies; Theses and Dissertations
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Full study of royal ideology and narrative structure in the Devi Mahatmya. Sustained discussion of Kali/Chamunda as Durga’s wrathful manifestation, Raktabija, protective violence and the Chamundeshvari cult, especially printed pp.160–192.
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04 Mother of Power, Mother of Kings: Reading Royal Ideology in the Devī Māhātmya
Raj Balkaran • 2015
Doctoral thesis • English
PhD thesis, Religious Studies, University of Calgary
Full study of royal ideology and narrative structure in the Devi Mahatmya. Sustained discussion of Kali/Chamunda as Durga’s wrathful manifestation, Raktabija, protective violence and the Chamundeshvari cult, especially printed pp.160–192.
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Scope: The full doctoral thesis is distinct from Balkaran’s two journal articles already catalogued; some themes recur in those later publications.
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Raj Balkaran. Mother of Power, Mother of Kings: Reading Royal Ideology in the Devī Māhātmya. PhD thesis, Religious Studies, University of Calgary. 2015. Doctoral thesis. https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/7642e726-3e34-43d4-87d7-56531fa551a6/content
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