God inside out : Śiva's Game of Dice / Don Handelman and David Shulman ; photographs by Carmel Berkson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handelman, Don.

Contributor:

Shulman, David Dean, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Siva (Hindu deity).

Dice games--India.

Dice games.

India.

Physical Description:

xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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. The 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.

ISBN:

0195108442

0195108450

OCLC:

34730734