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A Harivamsa hymn in Yijing's Chinese translation of the Sutra of Golden Light.
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A HYMN IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
The Harivamsa (first to third century), well known as an account of the life of the god Krsna, contains also a few hymns to the goddess Durga. These hymns are extremely inter-esting in that they are amongst the earliest written sources on Durga and represent one of the early efforts at establishing the identity, significance, and worship of Durga as the great goddess. (1) One of these hymns appears in Chinese translation in the Buddhist Sutra of Golden Light (Suvarnabhasottama Sutra), in Yijing's [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (635-713) ...
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