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Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees : Essays On the Guardians of Popular Hinduism
author
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Hiltebeitel, Alf.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0887069827
print isbn13
:
9780887069826
ebook isbn13
:
9780585078328
language
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English
subject
Gods, Hindu, Hindu cults.
publication date
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1989
lcc
:
BL1216.2.C75 1989eb
ddc
:
294.5/216
subject
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Gods, Hindu, Hindu cults.
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Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees
Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism
Alf Hiltebeitel, Editor
State University of New York Press
Page iv
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1989 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Criminal gods and demon devotees: essays on the guardians of popular Hinduism/edited by Alf Hiltebeitel. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-88706-981-9. ISBN 0-88706-982-7 (pbk.) 1. Gods, Hindu. 2. Hindu cults. I. Hiltebeitel, Alf. BL 1216.2.C75 1989 294.5'216dc 1988-24960 CIP
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Contents
Plates
vii
Note On Transliteration
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
Alf Hiltebeitel
1
1 Brahmans and Meat-Eating Gods
Madeleine Biardeau
19
2 Outcaste, Guardian, and Trickster: Notes on the Myth of Kattavarayan
David Dean Shulman
35
3 The Changing Face of Kattavarayan
Eveline Masilamani-Meyer
69
4 Tricking the Goddess: Cowherd Katamaraju and Goddess Ganga in the Telugu Folk Epic
Velcheru Narayana Rao
105
5 Night of the Growing Dead: A Cult of Virabhadra in Coastal Andhra
David M. Knipe
123
6 Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide: The Problem of the Mahabrahmana
Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam
157
7 New Data on the Kapalikas
David N. Lorenzen
231
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8Rapist or Bodyguard, Demon or Devotee? Images of Bhairo in the Mythology and Cult of Vaisno Devi
Kathleen M. Erndl
239
9 The Bir Babas of Banaras and the Deified Dead
Diane M. Coccari
251
10 The Capitulation of Mani: A Conversion Myth in the Cult of Khandoba
John M. Stanley
271
11 Between Ghost and God: A Folk Deity of the Deccan
Gnther D. Sontheimer
299
12 Draupadi's Two Guardians: The Buffalo King and the Muslim Devotee
Alf Hiltebeitel
339
13 Violent and Fanatical Devotion among the Nayanars: A Study in the Periya Puranam of Cekkilar
D. Dennis Hudson
373
14 From Robber Baron to Royal Servant of God? Gaining a Divine Body in South India
Joanne Punzo Waghorne
405
15 The Transgressive Sacrality of the Diksita: Sacrifice, Criminality and Bhakti in the Hindu Tradition
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