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Table of Contents
| 7. The Herbal Arsenal and Fetid Food: The Power of Plants in Early Tantric Exorcism Rituals | |
| Michael Slouber |
Preliminaries
| Introduction | |
Index
| Index | |
| Fabrizio Ferrari |
Second Tantra: Nature, Worship, Knowledge
| Chapter 5 Rice culture: Cultivation and worship of a divine plant in western Odisha | |
| Uwe Skoda |
| Chapter 6 Caryota Urens: from vegetable manifestation of God to the Sacred Tree of the Shamans of Orissa | |
| Stefano Beggiora |
Third Tantra: Knowledge, Power, Ritual
| Chapter 8 Divine flashes and herbal power: the use and importance of psychotropic plants in South Asian Sufi rituals and disciplines | |
| Thomas Dähnhardt |
Section 3
| Chapter 10 Tree Hugger: On the Audumbarī Rite of the Sāmaveda | |
| Finnian Gerety |
Section 1: Nature, Landscape, Devotion
| 1. A Modern Kalpavṛkṣa: Sathya Sāī Bābā and the Wish-Fulfilling Tree | |
| Antonio Rigopoulos |
| 2. "Pagoda Tree": Plants and Other Foliate Motifs on Indian Coins through History | |
| Shailendra Bhandare |
| 3. Divine Flora, Divine Love: The Place of Natural Scenery in the Ultimate Vision of Krṣna Bhakti | |
| Graham Schweig |
Section 2: Devotion, Ecology, Ritual
| 5. The Bodhi Tree and Other Plants in the Pali Tipitaka | |
| Antonella Serena Comba |
| 4. Perfumed Islam: The Culture of Scent at the Nizamuddin Basti | |
| Mikko Viitamäki |
| 6. Wood, Water and Waste: Material Aspects of Mortuary Practices in South Asia | |
| Albertina Nugteren |
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