Commencing from a critical reading of two recent publications on the Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa and the Devīmāhātmya, this article argues that, contrary to what is maintained by the author of the two books under review, what is ailing Purāṇic studies is not a reliance on traditional modes of textual criticism, but a misunderstanding about its utility for accessing the dynamic history of Purāṇic text corpora.

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什么是病态的 Purāṇic 研究？

这篇文章从对Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa和Devīmāhātmya的两本近期出版物的批判性阅读开始，认为与正在审查的两本书的作者所坚持的相反，Purāṇic 研究的困境并不是对传统文本模式的依赖。批评，但误解了它在访问 Purāṇic 文本语料库的动态历史方面的效用。