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Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide... read more
First Sentence
'THAT which cannot be found here exists nowhere'-this was the boast of the author of the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, and it is an excellent description of the Puranas, encyclopedic compendia of hundreds of thousands of Sanskrit verses dealing with every subject under the Indian sun.
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- Wendy Doniger (Author)
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