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: As a result

Trikala-pariksa

The implication of this position is that empirical errors can be transcended only in a larger and profounder empiricism

ksatriyas and vaisyas-perform their rites strictly in accordance with the injunctions ordained by the Vedas

Devi Mahatmya Ram Lal Kapoor Trust Mode of performing the ancestralThe Devi Mitheitmya is well known to both devotees and scholars of the Indian Great Goddess. Composed some 1500 years ago, it is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess in Sanskrit, and it has maintained its centrality in the Goddess (Sakta) tradition to the present day. Like so much in that tradition, however, the text has until now resisted careful study from an historical perspective. It is this study that the present volume accomplishes.