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Liberating the Liberated

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Preliminaries

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Table of Contents

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Preface

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

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

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

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Chapter 3: Śaiva Cremation in Early Saiddhāntika Ritual Manuals

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Chapter 4: The Cremation Ritual

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Chapter 5: Ancestor Worship in Early Śaiva Siddhānta

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Appendix A: Sanskrit Texts

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Appendix B: Translations

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Bibliography

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Index

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