Question
Note to moderator: enunciate the very last word of this tossup very carefully. A self-proclaimed (*) "great" book in this genre, sung in the Thousand Pillared Hall after being written to draw the king away from his favorite erotic epic, forms the twelfth and final volume of a "Holy Order" of hymns. A similarly-named genre of stories of pilgrimage sites mirror the "travel guide" sections of "glorification" inserted in these texts. Allegedly, this genre is distinguished by accounts of the solar and lunar dynasties that follow descriptions of creation, re-creation, sacred genealogies, and cosmic cycles as this genre’s "five signs.” Scholars often bemoan the unliterary style of texts in this genre despite their name proclaiming their ■END■
ANSWER: Puranas [accept sthala puranas; accept Periya puranam or Tiruttontarpuranam; prompt on hagiography by asking "What genre is in the name of that text?"] (The first sentence refers to the Periya puranam, which closes the Tirumurai; the second sentence refers to sthala puranas and mahatmyas.)
<Mythology - Mythology>
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Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 102 | -5 |
| Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 151 | 10 |
| Gareth Thorlakson | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 155 | 0 |
| Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 155 | 10 |
| Maude-Sophie Lockman | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 155 | 0 |
| Jananan Arulseelan | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 155 | 0 |
| Liam Kusalik | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 155 | 0 |
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 147.33 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 40% | 0% | 20% | 153.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 127.00 |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 145.00 |