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God inside out : Śiva's Game of Dice / Don Handelman and David Shulman ; photographs by Carmel Berkson

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997Description: xii, 219 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0195108442
  • 9780195108446
  • 0195108450
  • 9780195108453
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL1218 .H36 1997
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Contents:
When Siva Plays -- Bhrngin's Scream -- The Elephanta Panels -- On Losing: Kedarakhanda 34-35 -- Minor Victories -- How to Play -- The Boundary between Not-Play and Play -- Metaphysics of the Fluid Indic Cosmos -- Generating the Expected: The Rajasuya Dice Game and the Modeling of the Cosmos -- Generating the Unexpected: The Mahabharata Dice Game -- The Elimination of the Androgyne Outcome -- Excursus: When Visnu Plays Dice -- Unfettered, the Trickster Who Plays with God -- One More Game -- The Andhaka Outcome -- Withered Clown -- Mistress of Play -- Birth, Body, Transformation -- Andhaka at Ellora -- Andhaka of Arcot -- Adi and Viraka: Becoming a Rock -- Melting and Marrying -- Color and Heat -- On Redness -- The Self Disguised -- Spaces and Gaps -- Fullness -- Hunger -- Signs -- Selves
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index

When Siva Plays -- Bhrngin's Scream -- The Elephanta Panels -- On Losing: Kedarakhanda 34-35 -- Minor Victories -- How to Play -- The Boundary between Not-Play and Play -- Metaphysics of the Fluid Indic Cosmos -- Generating the Expected: The Rajasuya Dice Game and the Modeling of the Cosmos -- Generating the Unexpected: The Mahabharata Dice Game -- The Elimination of the Androgyne Outcome -- Excursus: When Visnu Plays Dice -- Unfettered, the Trickster Who Plays with God -- One More Game -- The Andhaka Outcome -- Withered Clown -- Mistress of Play -- Birth, Body, Transformation -- Andhaka at Ellora -- Andhaka of Arcot -- Adi and Viraka: Becoming a Rock -- Melting and Marrying -- Color and Heat -- On Redness -- The Self Disguised -- Spaces and Gaps -- Fullness -- Hunger -- Signs -- Selves

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