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The Triumph of the Snake Goddess
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Kaiser Haq
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With contributions by:
Wendy Doniger
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
About this book
The Triumph of the Snake Goddess, a prose translation by the scholar and poet Kaiser Haq, is the first comprehensive retelling of this epic in modern English. Haq’s Prologue explores the oral, poetic, and manuscript traditions, and Wendy Doniger’s Introduction examines the significance of snake worship in classical Sanskrit texts.
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Kaiser Haq’s The Triumph of the Snake Goddess is essential reading for all of us who grew up with stories of snakes as objects not just of fear and fascination, but also of veneration, respect, even worship.
-- Tabish Khair The Hindu
-- Tabish Khair The Hindu
Noteworthy in Haq’s translation are the pleasant descriptive language…and modern vernacular touches… The lengthy introduction (from University of Chicago history of religions professor Wendy Doniger) and prologue are excellent scholarly tools. This book will appeal to students of comparative religion, but can be read with equal enjoyment by laymen in search of engaging storytelling. Even today in South Asia itinerant performers act out the Manasa stories, and women leave out bowls of milk for snakes to pray for fertility. The snake goddess’s triumph is complete.
-- Rebecca Foster Wasafiri
-- Rebecca Foster Wasafiri
Both an impeccable scholarly venture and a sparklingly imaginative literary work in its own right, Kaiser Haq’s composite edition—and brilliant translation—of Manasamangal tells the gripping (and frequently hilarious) story of Manasa, the snake-goddess, and the contestation of a minor deity’s rights and privileges by a human. Manasa reminds us of the stubborn immortality of the folk and the non-canonical when faced with the literary and canonical. This is a revelatory, fascinating, and compelling book.
-- Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
-- Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others
In The Triumph of the Snake Goddess, Haq provides an informative and authoritative introduction to the Manasa traditions of premodern Bengal while creating a highly readable composite narrative of his own. The text is further animated by Doniger’s introduction, which vividly situates the regional particularities of Manasa against the pan-Indian mythic backdrop.
-- Brian A. Hatcher, Tufts University
-- Brian A. Hatcher, Tufts University
A rendition so rich in detail and so replete with humor that the narrative comes alive again for new readers in unexpected ways.
-- Rosinka Chaudhuri Times Literary Supplement
-- Rosinka Chaudhuri Times Literary Supplement
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