| Description |
xii, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 463-472. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Brahmans and meat-eating gods / Madeleine Biardeau -- Outcast, guardian, and trickster: notes on the myth of Kāttavarāyan / Eveline Masilamani-Meyer -- Tricking the goddess: cowherd Kāṭamarāju and goddess Gaṅga in the Telugu folk epic / Velcheru Narayana Rao -- Night of the growing dead: a cult of Vīrabhadra in coastal Andhra / David M. Knipe -- Bhairava's royal brahmanicide: the problem of the Mahābrāhmaṇa / Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam -- New data on the Kāpālikas / David N. Lorenzen -- Rapist or bodyguard, demon or devotee? images of Bhairo in the mythology and cult of Vaiṣṇo Devī / Kathleen M. Erndl -- The Bir Babas of Banaras and the deified dead / Diane M. Coccari -- The capitulation of Maṇi: a conversion myth on the cult of Khaṇḍobā / John M. Stanley -- Between ghost and god: a folk deity of the Deccan / Günther D. Sontheimer -- Draupadī's two guardians: the Buffalo King and the Muslim devotee / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Violent and fanatical devotion among the Nāyanārs: a study in the Periya Purāṇam of Cēkkilār / D. Dennis Hudson -- From robber baron to royal servant of god? gaining a divine body in South India / Joanne Punzo Waghorne -- The transgressive sacrality of the Dīkṣita: sacrifice, criminality and bhakti in the Hindu tradition / Sunthar Visuvalingam. |
| Subject |
Hindu gods.
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Hindu cults.
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| Added Author |
Hiltebeitel, Alf.
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| ISBN |
0887069819 |
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9780887069819 |
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0887069827 paperback |
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9780887069826 paperback |
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