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Liberating the Liberated

Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 96

Liberating the Liberated

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-8331-0
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-8475-1
Subject AreaAsian Studies
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Liberating the Liberated

Nina Mirnig

Preliminaries

page i

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Table of Contents

page v

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Preface

page ix

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Introduction: On Śaiva Tantric Death Rites in the Early Medieval Religio-historical Context

page 1

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Chapter 1: Doctrinal and Structural Premises for Śaiva Tantric Funerary Practices

page 23

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Chapter 2: The Emergence and Formation of Śaiva antyeṣṭi in the Earliest Extant Śaiva Siddhānta Scriptures

page 41

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Chapter 3: Śaiva Cremation in Early Saiddhāntika Ritual Manuals

page 85

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Chapter 4: The Cremation Ritual

page 123

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Chapter 5: Ancestor Worship in Early Śaiva Siddhānta

page 177

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Appendix A: Sanskrit Texts

page 217

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Appendix B: Translations

page 271

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Bibliography

page 339

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Index

page 355