The Seven Mothers: Origin Tales from Two Early-Medieval Purāṇas

This chapter presents us with two final tales for this section on demons and battle. Both are closely associated with the region of Bengal in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Now divided into Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in the Republic of India, this larger region is uni...

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Zusammenfassung:This chapter presents us with two final tales for this section on demons and battle. Both are closely associated with the region of Bengal in the northeastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Now divided into Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in the Republic of India, this larger region is united by the Bengali language and a shared culture. Home to mighty rivers such as the Ganges and Brahmaputra, it is a land of dense rain forests and rich agricultural plains, mountainous tea plantations and expansive mangrove forests where the famous, but now endangered, Bengal tigers still roam in
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv1b742rd.10