num_pages: 400
description: An important provocative and original work of great interest to Indian scholars historians of religions psychologists and historians of ideas but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation one cannot but admire her vast and precise learning her splendid translations and exegesis of so many and so different Sanskrit texts and her uninhibited brilliant and witty prose.Mircea Eliade University of ChicagoThis is . . . a book which is as rich in detail as the carvings of the great Hindu temples. It shares with them a delight in the interplay of myth and mundane experience and above all an empathy with the Hindu preoccupation with the meaning of human existence in all its complexity.G. M. Carstairs Times Literary Supplement
language: English
title: Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
publisher: University of Chicago Press