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Sandalwood and Carrion - Smell in Indian Religion and Culture (Paperback, New)
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Sandalwood and Carrion - Smell in Indian Religion and Culture (Paperback, New)
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James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the
concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India.
Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical
texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural role
of smell in India throughout the first millennium CE. McHugh
describes sophisticated arts of perfumery, developed in temples,
monasteries, and courts, which resulted in worldwide ocean trade.
He shows that various religious discourses on the purpose of life
emphasized the pleasures of the senses, including olfactory
experience, as a valid end in themselves. Fragrances and stenches
were analogous to certain values, aesthetic or ethical, and in a
system where karmic results often had a sensory impact-where evil
literally stank-the ethical and aesthetic became difficult to
distinguish. Sandalwood and Carrion explores smell in pre-modern
India from many perspectives, covering such topics as philosophical
accounts of smell perception, odors in literature, the history of
perfumery in India, the significance of sandalwood in Buddhism, and
the divine offering of perfume to the gods.
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