02492nam 2200709Ia 450 991081552410332120200520144314.00-19-773933-41-280-56410-597866105641010-19-535528-810.1093/oso/9780195108446.001.0001(CKB)1000000000415510(EBL)271554(OCoLC)476007593(SSID)ssj0000297731(PQKBManifestationID)11228033(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297731(PQKBWorkID)10342994(PQKB)11771233(Au-PeEL)EBL271554(CaPaEBR)ebr10279007(CaONFJC)MIL56410(OCoLC)935260457(MiAaPQ)EBC271554(OCoLC)1406786306(StDuBDS)9780197739334(OCoLC)34730734(FINmELB)ELB166628(EXLCZ)99100000000041551019960507d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGod inside out Siva's Game of Dice /Don Handelman and David Shulman ; photographs by Carmel BerksonNew York Oxford University Press19971 online resource (232 pages)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 1997.0-19-510845-0 0-19-510844-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index.Contents; I: When Śiva Plays; II: The Andhaka Outcome; III: Melting and Marrying; IV: Conclusion; References; IndexSiva, a Hindu god, plays 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. This book aims to show the logic implicit in this theology of play, fragmentation, divine self-knowledge and love.Oxford scholarship online.Siva (Hindu deity)Dice gamesIndiaSiva (Hindu deity)Dice games294.52113294.5213Handelman Don600381Shulman David Dean1949-919288MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815524103321God inside out3970816UNINA