Refiguring the Body

Introduction: Body Matters in South Asia
Barbara A. Holdrege

Part I. Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments

1. Perfected Embodiment: A Buddhist-Inspired Challenge to Contemporary Theories of the Body
Michael Radich

2. Body, Self, and Embodiment in the Sanskrit Classics of Ayurveda
Anthony Cerulli

3. Bodily Gestures and Embodied Awareness: Mudra as the Bodily Seal of Being in the Trika Saivism of Kashmir
Kerry Martin Skora

4. Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves: Theorizing Performative Selfhood in South Indian Performance
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

Part II. Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies

5. Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahabharata
Kendall Busse

6. Bhakti and Embodiment: Bodies of Devotion and Bodies of Bliss in K¿¿¿a Bhakti
Barbara A. Holdrege

7. To Body or Not to Body: Repulsion, Wonder, and the Tamil Saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar
Karen Pechilis

8. Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament: Marking Emotion in a South Indian Vai¿¿ava Messenger Poem
Steven P. Hopkins

Part III. Gendered and Engendering Bodies

9. Defining Women's Bodies in Indian Buddhist Monastic Literature
Carol S. Anderson

10. Murderer, Saint, and Midwife: The Gendered Logic of Engendering in Buddhist Narratives of A¿gulimala's Conversion
Liz Wilson

11. Fruitful Austerity: Paradigms of Embodiment in Hindu Women's Vrat Performances
Tracy Pintchman

Afterword: Bodies of Knowledge
Karen Pechilis

Contributors
Index