... Govindarāja, commenting on the Sanskrit text (4.18.45), gives a very similar explanation of Rāma's action, and adds that if Vālin had taken refuge with Rāma, Rāvaṇa would have followed suit, and the divine mission would have thus been frustrated. See Srinivasa Sastri (n. 6 above), pp. 147–48. This notion...

...Kirin Narayan Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment: Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas . By Aditya Malik . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . xxi, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780199325092 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Michael Dalby The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature . By Edward H. Schafer . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1973 . viii, 191 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...

...Dennis McGilvray The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India . By Lawrence A. Babb . New York : Columbia University Press , 1975 . xviii, 266 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 567 one can...

... University The Divine Player: A Study of Krsna Llla. By DAVID R. KINSLEY. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1979- xii, 306 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index. Rs 65. Lila is an important concept in Hindu cosmology. No full-length study of it has been available in English. David R. Kinsley's industrious collection...

...Dennis Hudson Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Śaiva Tradition . By David Dean Shulman . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1980 . xvi, 471 pp. Bibliography, Index of Motifs, Index of Place Names and Local Deity Names. $30. Copyright ©...

...Indira Viswanathan Peterson The Divine Consort: Rādhā and the Goddesses of India . Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff . Berkeley : Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley Religious Studies Series, no. 3), 1982 . xviii, 414 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Select...

... of ecological imbalance, they have illuminated an issue that is certain to become more problematic unless countermeasures are adopted soon. ROBERT G. VARADY University of Arizona Krishna: The Divine Lover. By A. L. DALLAPICCOLA, B. N. GOSWAMY, et al. London, New York, and Boston: Serindia Publications, C. H. P...

...June O'Connor Towards the Life Divine: Sri Aurobindo's Vision . By L. Thomas O'Neil . New Delhi : Manohar , 1979 . vi, 96 pp. Figures, Bibliography, Index. $10.50. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Box 502, Columbia, Mo. 65201.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984...

...Paula Richman Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey . By Philip Lutgendorf . New York : Oxford University Press , 2007 . xiv, 434 pp. $125.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Virtually everyone familiar with Hindu...

...], as a composite edition entitled Ssu-yu chi [The Four Journeys]. Authorship of Pei-yu chi is usually attributed to a certain Yü Hsiang-tou, but the work is popularly regarded as the mythic charter of divinity of the Emperor of the Dark Heavens (Hsüan-t'ien Shang-ti), apotheosis of the north. Arguments based...

... to something like their own point of view. MARGARET TRAWICK EGNOR Hobart and William Smith Colleges Towards the Life Divine: Sri Aurobindo's Vision. By L. THOMAS O'NEIL. New Delhi: Manohar, 1979. vi, 96 pp. Figures, Bibliography, Index. $10.50. (Distributed by South Asia Books. Columbia: Mo.) The guiding...

... into the orthodox Hindu textual tradition in the myths of the Devī-Māhātmya , or Candī , as this sixth-century A.D. text is known in Bengal. She subsequently became the chief divinity as Female Principle (Śakti, ‘Force’, ‘Creatrix’) in the esoteric Sākta Tantra cult, which was especially prevalent in eastern India...

...James J. Preston Divine Affairs: Religion, Pilgrimage, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India . By Ishita Banerjee Dube . Shimla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study , 2001 . 196 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 310 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Vasudha Narayanan BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 185 beliefs. Nichter and Rizvi have added to the food-and-health medical knowledge of South Asia. RUTH S. FREED American Museum of Natural History Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. By DAVID KINSLEY. Berkeley...

...Helen Hardacre Women of the Sacred Groves, Divine Priestesses of Okinawa . By Susan Sered . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1999 . $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 755 colonial policy...

...Constantina Rhodes Bailly Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahāvidyās . By David Kinsley . Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London : University of California Press , 1997 . x , 318 pp., 41 b/w illustrations...

...Shawn McHale The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism . By Janet Alison Hoskins . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . xv, 282 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In books mentioning the Cao Đài...

...I. W. Mabbett Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism . By Peter Masefield . London : George Allen and Unwin , 1986 . xx, 187 pp. $27.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 403 ceived Nagarjuna as introducing a significant...

...Walter G. Neevel, Jr. The Body Divine: The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Rāmānuja . By Anne Hunt Overzee . Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, No. 2. Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xv, 218 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...