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Vol. 1 (2025)
Published September 29, 2025
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Front Matter

i-vi
Volume 1 (2025): Inaugural Issue
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Editors' Introduction

Elizabeth A. Cecil, Peter C. Bisschop
1-18
Purāṇa as a Way of Worldmaking
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Research Articles

Ayelet Kotler
19-49
Mythical and Historical Time in the Author Portraits of the Persian Puranic Translator Anandghan ‘Khwush’ (fl. 1790–1795)
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Gaurika Mehta
50-74
Churning the Kalapani: Dark Water Histories, Oceanic Origins, and Marine Deities of the Indo-Caribbean Madrasi Diaspora
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James Mallinson
75-108
Joining the Clubs: Continuities between Pāśupata and Nāth Asceticism
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Photo Essays

Avni Chag
109-131
Revering the Relic Manuscript in Contemporary Hinduism
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Arya Adityan
132-149
Avatāra as Embodied Practice: Narrative, Performance, Image
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Artist's Essay

Samboleap Tol
150-167
“I feel like my ancestors have left me a thousand voice notes to decipher”
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RESEARCH
Studies in purāṇic practice across media, tracing histories, transmissions, and reinventions.

PHOTO
Photo essays from museums and archives, showing how collections shape memory.

REFLECTION
Perspectives on how tradition and ancestral memory drive creative processes.