Brodbeck, Simon Pearse  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-8665
2011.
Dharma. by Alf Hiltebeitel [Book Review].
Journal of Hindu Studies
4
(1)
, pp. 101-103.
10.1093/jhs/hir003
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Abstract
On the cover, along with the names of the book, author, and book series (‘Dimensions of Asian Spirituality’), are two pictures, on a matt grey-green background. In the upper picture is Yama Dharmarāja, lord of the passage through death, enthroned in his hall of audience. There is a gruesome attendant on one side, and a turbanned fellow seated on the other, reading aloud from an open book, and apparently presenting a handsome couple, in the foreground, to Yama. The lower picture is a strip of swirling blue, the postmortem River Vaitaraṇī, with people in it, and water-monsters. One woman has been grabbed by the ear. A woman in the centre is holding the tail of a cow, which seems to be paddling along happily, with a man’s head in front of it. Perhaps the man is leading the cow. Perhaps he is the tail-woman’s husband. Perhaps they are the couple in the upper picture.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2022 10:11 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/90605 |
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