ABSTRACT
The Greatness of the Goddess (DM) is keen to seal off, the various layers of enframement it initiates at its outset. The first frame of this book looked to our colonial past, and traced the pejorative scholarly attitudes directed at Puranas, as disorganized, debased, "corrupted" texts. Implicit in asking what the frame of the DM tells is the supposition that the frame narrative tells us anything at all. This research conveys not only the extent to which royal ideology pervades the DM; it conveys the extent to which the text itself conveys this by virtue of its very structure. It is the author hope that this methodology harnessed for subsequent study of the mechanics of Sanskrit enframement, and the thematic import it encodes. The Manu Savarni, along with the current Manu Vaivasvata, are offspring of the sun, which the DM reminds us of in its opening lines.
