This book is a significant contribution to studies in the Indian folklore, textual criticism and history of religion. The Varaha-katha has been chosen as a case study and the enquiry has been limited to its early phases so that the problems it poses may be studied intensively with attention to methodological question. The present study investigates how the Varaha-katha, which was a cosmogonical myth in the beginning, gets associated with Visnu in course of time ...
