The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Note that Tirumankai A ̄l ̄ va ̄r says clearly that he knows the grammar of Tamil and the grammar of love in Tamil lands do not ...

and performance, these “heroines” are the intense women in love; in religious commentary and interpretation, they represent the ...

break into their secret places, deceive them with affectionate lies, excite them in love play, get together the whole crowd one ...

in the twentieth century, the rasaor “flavor” created by the voice of a cowherd girl taunting Yas ́oda ̄ about the toddler Kr.s. ...

Is my daughter possessed by the Lord of the earth and the sea? What can I tell my daughter, who claims to know the earth and the ...

Let us come back to this question after considering three short narratives, all well known in local regions of India. There is o ...

seduce him, a righteous man. He tells her that she has no right to pollute him with her touch. Sulabha ̄ is not affected by his ...

The notion that the soul is beyond gender would be consistent in philosophi- cal discourses within the Hindu traditions. The Bha ...

female, the soul is simultaneously beyond it. This is not to imply that the real- ization that the soul is beyond gender is in a ...

the world (Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Malibu, etc.), the “festival” icon of Vis.n.u is dressed as Mohinı ̄. This is on the ev ...

in the figure of the Ardhanarı ̄s ́vara (“the God who is half female”) worshiped by the followers of the god S ́iva. In this ima ...

power structures” (ibid.: 204–5). The study of gender in this chapter has accepted the second model but also recognized that som ...

3 Translated by Vinod Menon of Chicago; personal communication. 4 “Thaaye Yas ́oda ̄” is a very popular song which is performed ...

Abhinavagupta, 16, 202, 203, 220, 221, 222–3, 224, 478, 489 adharma, 102, 104 A ̄ditya, 72, 78 Advaita Veda ̄nta, 122, 246, 282, ...

index 589 astrology, 16, 102, 365, 378–80, 383, 464 astronomy (jyotih.s ́a ̄stra), 5, 16, 102, 365, 371, 376–91; mathematical, 3 ...

590 index Caitanya, 191, 259, 260, 261–3, 264, 265, 302 cakra, 397–8 Calcutta, 514–16, 558 calendar, 376–8, 379, 385–8, 584 Camb ...

index 591 Durga ̄, 90, 191, 220, 239, 558, 560, 561, 562 dvaita, 246, 251–3 dvaita ̄dvaita, 246, 253 Dva ̄raka ̄/Dvarka, 121, 32 ...

592 index hegemony, 28, 33, 59 Heidegger, M., 564 hijracommunity, 569 Hiltebeitel, A., 153 Hindi, 14, 183, 554 Hindu, as a term, ...

index 593 Kerala, 4, 6, 7, 14, 15, 69, 159, 160, 161, 162, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173–4, 175, 176, 177, 215, 216, 219, 252, 30 ...

594 index Mathura ̄, 121 Matilal, Bimal, 424, 431, 436 ma ̄ya ̄(illusion, material substrate), 210, 224, 254 Ma ̄yo ̄n ̄ , 146, ...