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...Veena Das The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology . By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1977 . xi, 411 pp. Bibliography, Index. $15.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK REVIEWS 575 tors and translators...

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...Kenneth E. Bryant Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Purānas . Edited and translated by Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1978 . xiii, 373 pp. Glossary, Notes on Sources, Index. $17.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper...

...Agehananda Bharati Kānphaṭā: Untersuchungen zu Kult, Mythologie and Geschichte Sivaitischer Tantriker im Nepal. [Kānphaṭā: Research Concerning Cults, Mythology, History of Sivaitik Tantric in Nepal] . By Günter Unbescheid . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1980 . xxxiii, 183 pp...

... University , 1968 . [vii], 256 pp. Photographs, Maps. n.p. Towards a Survey of Philippine Folklore and Mythology . By Francisco Demetrio . [Y Radaza], S.J. [Manila] : Ateneo de Manila University Press , 1968 . iv, 144 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Mimeographed, n.p. Copyright ©...

...Larry D. Shinn The Indian Theogony: A Comparative Study of Indian Mythology from the Vedas to the Puranas . By Sukumari Bhattacharji . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . xiii, 397 pp. Bibliography, Index, $22.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972...

...Joseph T. O'Connell The Sword and the Flute: Kālī and Krsna, Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology . By David R. Kinsley . Berkeley , University of California Press , 1975 . viii, 168 pp. Notes, Works Cited. $12.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

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...Alf Hiltebeitel Mythologies du XXe siècle (Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade) . By Daniel Dubuisson . Lille : Presses Universitaires de Lille . 1993 . 348 pp. 130 FF. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in most films (one...

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...Lucetta Mowry Mythologies and Philosophies of Salvation in the Theistic Traditions of India . By Klaus K. Klostermaier . Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 1984 . xvi, 552 pp. Key to Abbreviations Used in Notes, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Plates. $22.95. (Distributed...

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