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the prototype of creation, often em
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sacrifice into Man from which he di
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elationship between humans and gods
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Fig. 3.1. Naga-sadhu preparing for
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In religious terms it might almost
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The use of the spiritual capacity r
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The precondition for creating hiera
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Fig. 3.5. Naraharinath. 56
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Nevertheless, according to Tyaginat
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discourse through the giving and re
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Fig. 4.2. Relation between the fles
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Fig. 4.4. Relation between consumpt
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Consequently it has to be a Brahman
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The Funeral priest as Brahman Retur
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only in India, but also South Pacif
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Low-castes in Bangladesh Chapter 5:
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Fig. 5.2. Population Census 1961, F
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The names of the informants are not
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Fig. 5.7. Pile of burnt wood next t
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Fig. 5.9. Hazera. 83
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cemetery each day. She did not have
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However, he was also an alcoholic w
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Jagadbandhu The development of reli
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The next day Jagadbandhu arranged a
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Fig. 6.3. Jagadbandhu meditating in
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Fig. 6.5. Jagadbandhu disciple in t
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Fig. 6.6. Shochi Nandan Brahmachari
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Jagadbandhu’s statements regardin
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Today, many sweepers working in the
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They change the Kali statues annual
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Faridpur, the goldsmiths numbered a
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and wishes. Schutz distinguishes be
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A Hell filled with good things! The
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Kali is cruel and ferocious, she is
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Fig. 7.7. Dhumavati. 113 Fig. 7.8.
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Some Muslims believe that Kali’s
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her despite his condition, and she
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The intoxicants are incorporated in
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Fig. 7.15. Ghata. 121
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“every contact with water implies
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According to myth, there were two k
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forth, sustaining, and eating back.
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and authority of her husband’s mo
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Saint Farid and syncretism With a p
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part of the nirakar dimension since
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Hindus pray in temples and Muslims
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temples, whereas educated Untouchab
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ut a disturbance of the cosmic orde
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Part 3: Reality, Materiality, and S
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Water worlds and culture Chapter 9:
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The context - regions and religions
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located at an altitude of 3550 metr
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Fig. 9.3. Tore cemetery in Manang w
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Fig. 9.6. Chatafars inside a chorte
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(Skt. Dakini) come to distribute th
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Fig. 9.8. Nire Ghat by Kaligandaki
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Fig. 9.9. River and rain in a life-
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The process of procreation Chapter
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Fig. 10.1. Fluid attributions and m
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Fig. 10.2. Linga at Pashupatinath w
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creating new humans. The whole hydr
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“Having their faces resembling ca
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Living symbols and life-giving proc
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living symbol shapes and formulates
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Mythology and phallus “[…] The
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Still, other people may meditate an
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Fig. 11.1. At the sadhu area at Pas
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Pashupatinath in its contemporary H
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Fig. 11.3. Virupakshya and his temp
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Secondly, although many of these my
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Prologue and preparations Before 20
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A similar temporary solution was ma
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Fig. 12.2. Cremains from the previo
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Fig. 12.4. Cleansing station treati
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The loss of water is the main probl
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Fig. 12.9. Bagmati River in a highl
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Adjoining the Pashupatinath temple
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The problem of corpses Chapter 13:
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sensing; “death signifies a chang
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It is of great importance to have a
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to the child and thereby accepts it
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209 Top: Fig. 13.3. Husband cremate
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condition consisting of both dying
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Part 4: Archaeology of Water-Worlds
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Archaeology of religions Chapter 14
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This of course raises epistemologic
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centuries of changing practices whe
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Fig. 14.1. Jung Bahadur Rana. 221
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On the death of Dharmamalla the joi
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implicit in the practice of sati is
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Rebirth and the elements of micro-
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soteriologcial welfare of the group
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prosperously in the fourteenth year
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holy men; such things are not permi
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“[…] If the amount of water at
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Zoroastrianism - a historical intro
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impossible to excavate water in its
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Most often people use water for eve
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The Iranian emperors were Zoroastri
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The previously lived life influence
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The dakhmas are not merely places w
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Inside the dakhma the tower is divi
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One of the main problems today duri
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One question but no answers… I wi
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Fig. 17.1. Map of Taxila. Pakistan
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including fire-altars (Marshal 1951
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Fig. 17.2. Jandial Temple: plan of
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Fig. 17.3. Temple of Jandial from S
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Taxila was probably one of many cit
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Fig. 17.7. Bodhisattva Maitreya, fr
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The purpose of a colossal image is
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Nevertheless, in a discussion of th
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Of 1399 known localities in the Ind
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What is important is to emphasise t
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properties and qualities. By acknow
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the meantime our hypothesis, if it
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Death and Life-Giving Waters has be
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eceive the most auspicious funeral
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these waters are immediate life-giv
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across this multi-layered history?
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the body to the gods; ethicisation
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this system, and the transformation
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Appendixes and Literature 291
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Appendix A Glossary Acharya A spiri
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Brammankanda Village where Jagadban
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epresents the border between the ki
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to a canonical text or passage rath
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Shastras Part of the Smriti (“rem
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Yoga Sutras See Patanjali. Yogi Pra
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Nigel Barley remarked in Dancing on
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conscious than respecting the infor
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Fig. 18.1. Picture of Ram Mani Gyaw
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Models. The main advantage with com
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From my perfect location at the ver
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Being an Aghori is difficult to gra
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he will sit in lotus position surro
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Appendix D Origin of Pashupatinath
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Hearing the words of Buddha, Parvat
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For the welfare of creatures, the w
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Appendix E Descriptions of statues
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Abram, D. 1996. The Spell of Sensuo
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Mahanambrata Cultural & Welfare Tru
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Order. Cambridge University Press.
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a Science of Culture. Random House.
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Contemporary Perspective. Holt, Rin
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Encyclopedia Britannica. 15 th ed.,
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Water and Sin in Christianity. Bric
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(n.d.). The Catapatha Brahmana of t
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esearch agenda for the future resea