Early Tantric medicine : snakebite, mantras, and healing in the Garuda Tantras / Michael Slouber.

  • Slouber, Michael
Date:
[2017]
  • Books

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Description

"The book is written in a fascinating style, bringing to life serpents, eagles, gods, and goddeses, and remain throughout enjoyable. It offers a colourful mix of lore on snakes, theories on mantras and healing, and also reveals newly discovered literature of snakebite medicine. The book is thus a must read for all those interested in religious medicine or tantric cultures."-- From the cover.

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Physical description

xi, 375 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Introducction -- 2. Precursors to the Gārudam -- 3. Canon and compendia -- 4.The Vipati mantra -- 5. Nīlakantha et al. -- 6. Snakebite goddesses -- 7. Impact -- 8. Conclusions and prospective -- Apendices -- Notes -- Register of shortened Internet links -- Title list of Indic: primary sources -- General bibliography -- Index.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-353) and index.

Language note

Text in English, Sankrit and Nepali, including translations into English.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ZFK.23
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780190461812
  • 0190461810