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"The anthropology of Hinduism has amply established that Hindus have strong involvement with sacred geography. The Hindu sacred topography is dotted with innumerable pilgrimage places, and popular Hinduism is abundant with spatial imaginings. Thus Shiva and his partner, the mother goddess, live in the Himalayas, goddesses descend on earth as beautiful rivers, the goddess Kali's body parts are imagined to have fallen in various sites of Hindu geography sanctifying them as sacred centres, and yogi

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Author

Sukanya Sarbadhikary

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520962668

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Anthropology, Sociology, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-25