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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
Once each year the deity withdraws from public sight for a fortnight, retreating into a chamber sealed to all except a priesthood of tribal descent. The essay traces how devotion accommodates absence,...
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
The myth of devotees perishing beneath the chariot wheels traces to Odoric of Pordenone's fourteenth-century account, later amplified by chaplain Claudius Buchanan to argue for Christian missions. Anthropologist Verrier Elwin found no...
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