The influence of the ancient Indian conceptual framework of the roles, rights, values and duties of ancient Indian women on the roles of the goddesses in the Devimahatmya and Lalitopakhyana

อิทธิพลของกรอบแนวคิดบทบาท สิทธิ ค่านิยม และหน้าที่ของสตรีอินเดียโบราณที่มีต่อบทบาทของพระเทวี ในคัมภีร์เทวีมาหาตมยะและคัมภีร์ลลิโตปาขยานะ

Abstract

        This article aims to study the influence of the conceptual framework of rights, values, roles and duties of women in the Rigveda and Manusmriti on the roles of goddesses in the Devimahatmya and Lalitopakhyana.
        The results of the study found that the Devimahatmya emphasizes the role of the Devi as the great mother of all living beings as the primary role and insert the roles of the Devi as a daughter and wife as secondary roles that are less important to the story than the role of mother. While the Lalitopakhyana portrays the roles of the Devi as a daughter, wife and mother as per the values found in the Rigveda and Manusmriti. It is a central roles of equal importance to the story.
        This study reveals that the authors of the Devimahatmya and Lalitopakhyana were influenced by the conceptual framework of values and roles of women as found in the Rigveda and Manusmriti and selected women's values and rights that glorify women's roles as being as important as men's roles to create the roles of Devi, the main character in their literary works.