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Vol. 29 No. 2 (2025): For a multivocal history of the attitudes towards animals in South Asia: Concepts, ethics, practices, symbolism
Vol. 29 No. 2 (2025): For a multivocal history of the attitudes towards animals in South Asia: Concepts, ethics, practices, symbolism
Published:
2025-07-21
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Preface
Cinzia Pieruccini, Marco Franceschini, Gianni Pellegrini, Antonio Rigopoulos
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Sacrifice
Sacrifices gone wrong: Precautions, consequences, damage control
Gianfranco Mormino
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From the bellowing cow to the cow’s soul: Remarks on the Old Indo-Āryan and Old Iranian animal sacrifice
Paola M. Rossi
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Ahiṃsā and vegetarianism
Utopian ahiṃsā and the violence inherent in food in early Buddhism: Pāli texts vis-à-vis early Upaniṣads and Aśoka edicts
Bryan De Notariis
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Jaina attitudes towards animals: Ahiṃsā, lāñchana symbols and zoomorphic sculptures
Julia A. B. Hegewald
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Philosophical and linguistic views
Animal-oriented laukikanyāyas: On some uses of analogical maxims concerning animals in selected Vedāntic contexts
Gianni Pellegrini
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Minimal inference: An inquiry into Navya-Nyāya in quest of nonhuman logic
Alberto Anrò
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Animal names in the history of the Indo-Aryan languages: Hereditary traits and innovative trends
Andrea Drocco
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Sentience and Rasa
Love and sorrow: On the sentience of ‘common’ animals in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Cinzia Pieruccini
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Can animal characters be ‘receptacles of rasa’? An overview of the positions held on this issue in classical Indian treatises on poetics
Marco Franceschini
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The flight of the antelope: Outlining two different perspectives on the aesthetic reception of a verse from Kālidāsa’s Abhijñānaśākuntala
Luigi H. T. Singh
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Saints and mystics
Nourishing the body and food for soul: The role of animals in the South Asian Sufi environment
Thomas W.P. Dähnhardt
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Animals in the Shri Sai Satcharita
Antonio Rigopoulos
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Tigers, snakes, and the forest
R. K. Narayan’s A Tiger for Malgudi: An Indian view on non-human animals
Alessandro Vescovi
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Illicit devotion: Priests for a day, snake charmers for a lifetime
Maria Angelillo
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The riddle of the crane: Multispecies coexistence and the case of Dhanauri (Uttar Pradesh, India)
Stefano Beggiora
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Emblematic animals and visual arts
The musk deer and its musk in classical Indian literature
Klaus Karttunen
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Vāhanas on the Bharhut stūpa: Remarks on animal and hybrid figures between art and texts
Chiara Policardi
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