Visnu's Children

Visnu's Children Prenatal Life-Cycle Rituals in South India - DVD

Betamax SECAM Video (01 Aug 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The ritual occasions represented on this DVD are enactments of the prenatal life-cycle ritual visnubali, "the offering to Visnu", which is specific to the Vaikhanasas, a group of South Indian Brahmin priests in Visnu temples. This ritual is performed in the eighth month of pregnancy. It enacts and marks a transformation of the unborn child. Visnubali, "the offering to the god Visnu", makes the unborn a Visnu devotee, and confers on it its future right to act as a temple priest in South Indian Visnu temples. The ritual is understood as a prenatal initiation, performed by the god Visnu himself: Visnu transforms the unborn into his own child. The DVD cannot be run on a stand-alone NTSC DVD player. Original sound with English subtitles. This DVD is also available as part of the book publication: Husken, Ute: Visnu's Children. Prenatal life-Cycle rituals in South India.

Book information

ISBN: 9783447058537
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Imprint: Harrassowitz
Pub date:
Language: English
Weight: 4296g