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Sanātana 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.

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Author:   Måns Broo
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   56/1
Weight:   1.523kg
ISBN:  

9789004532809

ISBN 10:   9004532803
Pages:   828
Publication Date:   24 February 2023
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Table of Contents

Preface 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

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Måns Broo, Ph.D. (2003), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is a Lecturer of the Study of Religions at that university. His recent publications include a critical edition and annotated translation of the Rādhā Tantra (Routledge, 2017).

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