Dharma. by Alf Hiltebeitel [Book Review]

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
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
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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