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Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-knowledge

Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-knowledge


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A god wanders into a forest of Himalayan pine trees. Human beings encounter this god and the meeting changes both parties. The god becomes more alive and emerges as the dancer-Nataraja-the most salient of his forms in South India. This is the story of the Daruvana, the richest and most complex of all classical narratives about Siva. In this creative discussion on Indian religion, Don Handelman and David Shulman present the Daruvana myth as the basis for three important forms of Siva-Bhairava, Bhiksatana, and Nataraja. Basing their analysis on narratives from Tamil versions of the myth recorded at three major temple sites-Kancipuram, Cidambaram, and Tirunelveli-they contend that the central corpus of the Saiva Siddhanta philosophical texts is continuous with these 'mythic' texts on Siva. Underlying all versions is a notion of the god as freeing himself and knowing himself through the acts of his devotees. Siva in the Forest of Pines brings to the reader texts from medieval India that have never been translated into English before. It has a freshness of approach which seeks to link history, ritual, iconography, and philosophy. The book will be useful to scholars of literature and religion, historians and social anthropologists as well as general readers.

Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION AND DIACRITICS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTO THE FOREST; CIDAMBARAM: MAKING SPACE; EXORCISING EMPTINESS AT NELVELI; FEEDING AND MADNESS; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX: KURMA-PURANA; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780195665505
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP India
  • Height: 215 mm
  • Sub Title: An Essay on Sorcery and Self-knowledge
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0195665503
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 476 gr


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