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...Timothy Lubin The Aphorisms of Śiva: The Śiva Sūtra with Bhāskara's Commentary, The Vārttika . Translated with exposition and notes by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1992 . xvii, 247 pp. $12.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Karen Pechilis Prentiss The Dance of Śiva: Religion, Art and Poetry in South India . By David Smith . Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions volume 7. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xii, 301 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Kaja M. McGowan Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple Art of East Java . By Ann R. Kinney , with Marijke J. Klokke and Lydia Kieven . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2003 . 303 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 248 T H E J O U R...

...Pramod Chandra The Presence of Śiva . By Stella Kramrisch . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1981 . xii , 468 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Photographs, Plates, Appendixes. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 187...

...Sara Dickey Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India . By Karin Kapadia . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1995 . xv, 269 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 528 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Siva and Her...

...R. Blake Michael Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Śiva in Medieval India . By Richard H. Davis . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . xvi, 200 pp. $35.00. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 951 Eliya...

...Paula Richman Poems to Śiva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints . By Indira Viswanathan Peterson . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1989 . $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 1066 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES renouncers abandoning...

...Glenn Yocum Discourses on Śiva: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery . Edited, with an introduction, by Michael W. Meister . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1984 . xxiv, 362 pp. Index, List of Plates, Plates. $75. Copyright © The Association...

...Clifford Reis Jones Śiva in Dance, Myth, and Iconography . By Anne-Marie Gaston . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1982 . xi, 242 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Index. Rs200. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 424 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Bruce M. Sullivan Śiva dans le Mahābhārata . By Jacques Scheuer . Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1982 . 376 pp. Bibliography, Index. Fr 180. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 878 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Siva dans le Mahabharata. By JACQUES...

..., giving out funds to upgrade knowledge and practice for improving canal irrigation in South Asia. So Chambers knows firsthand what he is talking about, and that adds immensely to the value of the book. NORMAN UPHOFF Cornell University The Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta. By CHARLES DILLARD...

...Hank Heifetz The Philosophy of the Grammarians . By Harold G. Coward and K. Kunjunni Raja . Princeton : Princeton University Press . 1991 . xii, 609 pp. $65.00. Śiva's Warriors: The Basava Purāna of Pālkuriki Somanātha . Translated By Velcheru Narayana Rao . Assited by Gene H...

...Richard H. Davis Abstract Let us imagine a graceful bronze image of Dancing Śiva before us. It was perhaps created by a Cola artist in eleventh-century Tamilnad to be installed in a temple to receive offerings of worship, and to parade around the town in a ceremonial palanquin on festival days...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract At the tip of southeastern Sri Lanka is the shrine of Kataragama, sacred to Skanda, the son of Śiva. There, every year in the Sinhala month äsala (July/August), devotees walk the length of a pit containing a thick layer of red-hot coals. Many Buddhists and Hindus...