The Indian Hair-Wringing Apsaras and her Discriminating Goose: Meanings and Migrations
The present study investigates depictions of the Indian apsaras wringing water from her hair in monumental religious iconography. It demonstrates the migration of iconography and transformations of meaning from the northern sources to other areas of India and ultimately to parts of southeast Asia. I...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2021
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 142-177 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Art
/ Apsaras
/ Hair (Motif)
/ Hinduism
/ Spread of
/ Buddhism
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
viveka
B apsaras B hair-wringing goose |
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