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Agni
Ambience (sound recording)
Andhaka
Apotheosis
Archaeological Survey of India
Asceticism
Asura
Atharvaveda
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Axis mundi
Bhairava
Brahmacharya
Buddhism
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Chakra
Conflagration
Cosmic Man
Cosmic ocean
Creation myth
Creator deity
Deity
Demiurge
Dhruva
Elephanta Caves
Ellora Caves
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Evocation
Firmament
Forehead
God
Great Goddess
Iconography
Incarnation
Incest
Indriya
Jalandhara
Kali Yuga
Kaurava
Kubera
Libation
Manyu (deity)
Matsya
Mendicant
Mohenjo-daro
Mount Mandara
Narrative
Phallus
Pralaya
Prana
Progenitor
Rite
Rudra
Rudras
Sacrifice
Sanskrit
Shrine
South India
Subtle body
Tapas (Sanskrit)
The Other Hand
Theogony
Theophany
Thirty-three gods
Trance
V.
Vajra
Vedas
World
Worship
Yajna
Yogi
Yoni
Yuga
Product details
- ISBN 9780691019307
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda, evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Siva--based on original Sanskrit texts, many translated here for the first time--Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas and the Puranas. Who is Siva? Who is this god whose being comprises and transcends everything? From the dawn of creation, the Wild God, the Great Yogi, the sum of all opposites, has been guardian of the absolute. By retelling and interweaving the many myths that keep Siva alive in India today, Kramrisch reveals the paradoxes in Siva's nature and thus in the nature of consciousness itself.
Stella Kramrisch is Curator of Indian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Professor of Indian Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is the author of The Hindu Temple (Calcutta), the standard work on Indian sacred architecture.
