Laying Out Feast-Offerings: Offering Meat, Feasting Together and Sharing with the Gods

In the literature on sacred food in Hinduism, vegetarian offerings to Sanskritic deities (Sanskrit naivedya, prasada; Tamil naivettiyam, pracatam) are privileged. If meat is mentioned, it is in reference to sacrificial worship; and even so, the analysis often stops at ritual killing. Here, however,...

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Main Author: Arumugam, Indira (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2021
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 274-299
Further subjects:B Feasting
B Ritual Display
B Human-Deities Commensality
B Offerings
B Meat
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