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The goddess in Hindu-Tantric traditions Devi as corpse / Anway Mukhopadhyay.
| Author/creator | Mukhopadhyay, Anway |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | x, 153 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 23 |
| Contents | The human death, the divine corpse -- Reinterpreting the myth of Sati: the devoted husband and the corpse of his wife -- Dismemberment as pluralization: the scattering of Sati's body parts and the self-pluralization of Shiva -- The Shakti Pithas: the active corpse, the immanent Shakti and the sacred geography of Shaktism -- Shava Sadhana: who is the corpse? Shiva or Shakti? -- Placing the Devi's corpse on the shore of a thousand streams: a multicultural and comparativist reading of the Devi as corpse -- Shava-Rupa and Vishva-Rupa: the corpse form and the cosmic form of the Devi. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-146) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018001285 |
| ISBN | 9781138480186 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |