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Indian asceticism power, violence, and play /

Indian cultural discourses and narratives about ascetics are examined to understand the powers exhibited by ascetics, which are byproducts of their path, and the ways that these powers are interconnected to issues of violence and forms of play (eroticism, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous)....

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Main Author: Olson, Carl (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Scholarship Online
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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1 online resource.
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