Bibliography on Janamejaya's Snake
Sacrifice and Nagas
Compiled by Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Sources focused on the Mahabharata and other Sanskrit sources
Brodbeck, Simon. forthcoming in Religions of South Asia journal: "Janamejaya's
big brother: new light on the Mahabharata's frame story."
Gail, Adalbert. Parasurama: Brahmane und Krieger
Goldman. R. Gods, Priest and Warriors: The Bhrgus of the Mahabharata
Doniger (O'Flaherty), Wendy, "Horses and Snakes in the Adi Parvan
of the Mahabharata" (in Margaret Case and N. Gerald Barrier, eds.,
Aspects of India: Essays in Honor of Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. New Delhi:
Manohar, 1986. pp. 16-44)
Doniger, Wendy, ed. Purana Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in
Hindu and Jaina Texts
Karve, Irawati. Yuganta: The End of an Epoch
Kosambi, D. D. "The Autochthonous Element in the
Mahabharata," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 84 (1964):
31-44
Minkowski, Christopher. Snakes, Sattras, and the Mahabharata. In Essays
in the Mahabharata, edited by A. Sharma, 384-400. Leiden: E. J. Brill,
1991.
Minkowski, C. Z. "Janamejaya's Sattra and Ritual Structure,"
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 109 (1989): 401-420
Minkowski, C. Z. " The Interrupted Sacrifice and the Sanskrit
Epics," Journal of Indian Philosophy 29 (2001): 169-186.
Reich, Tamar C. "Sacrificial Violence and Textual Battles: Inner
Textual Interpretation in the Sanskrit Mahabharata," History of
Religions, 41 (2001): 142-169.
The Snake Sacrifice by Dr. Devdutt:
http://devdutt.com/the-snake-sacrifice
Mahabharata's
Snake Killings by Dr. Narendra Kohli:
http://www.narendrakohli.org/Welcome_files/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%20%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE.html
(Note: Cut and paste the above into your browser's address bar to read the
essay.)
Assorted sources dealing with nagas and naginis, as well as snakes
in regional folk traditions
Bhatti, H.S. "Folk Religion: Change and Continuity"
Davis, Coralynn V. 2008. Pond-Women Revelations: The Subaltern
Registers in Maithil Women's Expressive Forms. /Journal of American
Folklore/ 121(481):286-318.
Logan, William, Malabar Manual.
Srinivasan, Doris M. " Monumental Naginis from Mathura" in On
the Cusp of an Era : Art in the Pre-Kusana World , ed. D.M. Srinivasan ,
Brill ; 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Kingdom
diverse work on narrative traditions & worship of the snake-deity
& deified Rajput known variously in Rajasthan, Gujarat & Panjab as
Guga, Goga Bap-ji, and Kesariya Kanvar (John Cort can provide references)
Additionally on nagas
Ayrookuzhiel, A. M. Abraham. The Sacred in Popular Hinduism: an
Empirical Study in Chirakkal, North Malabar. Madras, India: Published
for the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society,
Bangalore by the Christian Literature Society, 1983. P. 16
Beal, Samuel, trans. Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist
Pilgrims, From China to India (400A.D. and 518 A.D.). 1964. 2nd ed. New
York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. Pp. 67-68
Clarke, Hyde. "Note on Serpent and Siva Worship and Mythology in
Central America, Africa, and Asia," Journal of the Anthropological
Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 6 (1877): 247- 260.
Crooke, W. The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India. Vol.
2. 1896. 2nd ed. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968. See chapter,
"Tree
and Serpent Worship".
Fergusson, James. Tree and Serpent Worship. 1868.
Howey, M. Oldfield. The Encircled Serpent; A Study of Serpent Symbolism
in All Countries and Ages. New York City: Arthur Richmond Co., 1955.
Kumari, Dr. Ved. The Nilamata Purana, Vol. 1 & 2. Srinagar: J &
K
Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, 1968.
Legge, James, trans. A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms; being an account
by the Chinese monk Fax-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D.
399-414) in search of the Buddhistic books of discipline. New York:
Paragon Book Reprint Corp, 1965. P. 52
Mundkur, Balaji. The Cult of the Serpent: An Interdisciplinary Survey
of Its Manifestations and Origins. Albany, New York: State University
of New York Press, 1983.
--------. "The Roots of Ophidian Symbolism," Ethos, volume 6,
issue 3
(Autumn, 1978): 125-158.
Panda, Sadhu Charan. Naga Cult in Orissa. Delhi: B. R. Publishing
Corporation, 1986.
Sharma, Brijendra Nath. Festivals of India. New Delhi; Abhinav
Publications, 1978. Pp. 24-25, 89,
Sinha, Binod Chandra. Hinduism and Symbol Worship. Delhi: Agam Kala
Prakashan, 1983.
--------. Serpent Worship in Ancient India. New Delhi: Books Today, 1979.
Vogel, J. Ph. Indian Serpent-Lore; or, The Nagas in Hindu Legend and
Art. London, A. Probsthain, 1926.
Zimmer, Heinrich. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization.
Joseph Campbell, ed. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1974.
See also:
Grhya Sutras for sarpabali rituals during the rainy season.
Atharva Veda for hymns to ward off snakebite.
Revised: July 08, 2009
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