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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Shiva (New Delhi, 1971, revised edition), page 67.
Padma Purāna (Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series no. 131, Poona, 1893) 6.11.7.
Verrier Elwin, Myths of Middle India (Oxford, 1949), p. 414; cf. O’Flaherty (1976), p. 244.
E. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India (Madras, 1909 ), VI, p. 116. Cf. O’Flaherty (1976), p. 226. Siva himself is often depicted carrying a drum.
George L. Hart, III, The Poems of Ancient Tamil, Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts (Berkeley, 1975 ), p. 29.
Max Weber, The Sociology of Religion (London, 1963), p. 158.
Coomaraswamy, p. 74; cf. David R. Kinsley, The Sword and the Flute, Kali and Krsna (Berkeley, 1975 ), pp. 114–125; cf. also Edward J. Thompson and Arthur Marshman Spencer, Bengali Religious Lyrics, Sakta (London and Calcutta, 1923 ).
R. Dessigane and P.Z. Pattabiramin, La legende de Skanda selon le Kānchipurānam Tamoul et l’iconographie (Publications de l’lnstitut Francais d’Indologie, no. 31, Pondichery, 1967), pp. 84–85 (2.32.6–47). Cf. O’Flaherty (1973), p. 229.
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O’Flaherty, W.D. (1979). Death as a Dancer in Hindu Mythology. In: Nagatomi, M., Matilal, B.K., Masson, J.M., Dimock, E.C. (eds) Sanskrit and Indian Studies. Studies of Classical India, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8941-2_11
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