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God Inside-Out - Siva's Game of Dice (Paperback, New)
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God Inside-Out - Siva's Game of Dice (Paperback, New)
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This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu
god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom
he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which
turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition.
Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually absorbed in this game,
which is recreated in innumerable stories, poems, paintings, and
sculptural carvings. This notion of the god at play, argue
Handelman and Shulman, is one of the most central and expressive
veins in the metaphysics elaborated through the centuries, in many
idioms and modes, around the god.
The book comprises three interlocking essays; the first presents
the dice-game proper, in the light of the texts and visual
depictions the authors have collected. The second and third
chapters take up two mythic "sequels" to the game. Based on their
analysis of these sequels, the authors argue that notions of
"asceticism" so frequently associated with Siva, with Yoga, and
with Hindu religion are, in fact, foreign to Hinduism's inherent
logic as reflected in Siva's game of dice. They suggest an
alternative reading of this set of practices and ideas, providing
startling new insights into Hindu mythology and the major poetic
texts from the classical Sanskrit tradition.
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