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020			_a9780199916306
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/103A, H. No.-15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi _c: ZBD0351 _d: 24/12/2025
082			_a152.1 MCH
100			_aMcHugh, James.
245			_aSandalwood and carrion _b : smell in premodern Indian religion and culture. _c/James McHugh.
260			_aNew York _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2013.
300			_axix, 322 p. _c ;24 cm.
365			_b4685
520			_aJames McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural role of smell in India throughout the first millennium CE. McHugh describes sophisticated arts of perfumery, developed in temples, monasteries, and courts, which resulted in worldwide ocean trade. He shows that various religious discourses on the purpose of life emphasized the pleasures of the senses, including olfactory experience, as a valid end in themselves. Fragrances and stenches were analogous to certain values, aesthetic or ethical, and in a system where karmic results often had a sensory impact-where evil literally stank-the ethical and aesthetic became difficult to distinguish. Sandalwood and Carrion explores smell in pre-modern India from many perspectives, covering such topics as philosophical accounts of smell perception, odors in literature, the history of perfumery in India, the significance of sandalwood in Buddhism, and the divine offering of perfume to the gods.
650			_aRites and ceremonies
650			_aReligious aspects.
650			_aReligion.
700			_aJames McHugh
942			_cBOOK
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