देवेषु विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

abhicāra
abhicāraja
Abhinavagupta, on bhūtavidyā, on definition of possession, on devotion, on mudrās, on possession as enlightenment, on possession as knowledge, on possession as practice, on sahṛdaya, on śaktipāta
abhiṣaṅgaja
abhiśāpaja
abhyāsa
acintyabhedābheda
adālat. See also legal models
Aḍhamalla
adhikāra
ädurā
advaita
aesthetic theory. See alaṃkāraśāstra
Āgamarahasyam
agency
aghau
Aghori Vimalananda
Agni: and creation/incarnation, and pervasion/immersion in Vedas, and shape-shifting, and transfer of essence, and Ucchuṣma
agnicayana
Agnihotra ritual
AH Uttarasthāna (AH-Ut)
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa (AB)
Aitareya Upaniṣad (AiU)
Akanāṉūṟu
ākarṣaṇa
Aklujkar, Ashok
akṣarabrahman
Aks (Hindi film)
alaṃkāraśāstra, and authenticity, and bhūtavidyā, brahmanical orthodoxy on, and Buddhism, and ethnographies, and folk-classical relationship, and legitimization of emotion, and performative contexts, rasa categories, and sahṛdaya, and social construction of emotion, and vocabularies of possession
alchemy
Alexander the Great
amanussaparaggahītā
Amaruka. See Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka
Amaruśataka
Ama Ta Bap
amatigṛhīta
āmil
Amma, Andavan Pichchi
ammaṉ vantatu
Amoghapāśasūtra
ānanda korā
Ānandavardhana
aṇaṅku
Anantānandagiri
anatta
Andersen, Poul
androgyny
Angala Amman
angāt vāḍhlā
angāt yeṇe
anger. See raudra
āṅgmā caṛhnu
animals: in art, in fiction, in Mahābhārata, products used in healing, and shape-shifting,
anthropological approaches, definitions of possession, and Eurocentrism, interpretive strategies, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, on ritual, and social control/resistance, and vocabularies of possession, and Western unitary self. See also ethnographies
Aṇubhāṣya (Vallabhācārya)
anugraha
anu-pra√viś
apadṛṣṭi
apasmāra
āpastambagraha
Āpastamba Śrautasūtra (ĀpŚS)
apauruṣeya
Apollonius of Tyana
Appadurai, Arjun
Appayya Dīkṣita
apsaras
Arjuna, disguise of
army of spirits
art: animals in, and fluid/multiple self
ārūḍe
āruḍha
arugu darśana ātuṇḍu
aruḷ
Āryaśūra
āsana
asceticism
Asclepius
Assamese vocabularies of possession
association of possession with low social status, and control, and cross-dressing, and folk-classical relationship, and “irrationality,” and shamanism, and svasthāveśa, See also possession as primitive; social control/resistance
Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Saṃhitā (AH), bhūtavidyā in, and contemporary Āyurveda
astrology (jyotiṣa), and bhūtavidyā, brahmanical orthodoxy on, and contemporary Āyurveda, and prasenā, and vocabularies of possession
Aśatthāman. See Śiva’s possession of Aśvatthāman
Atharvaveda (AV): and Āyurveda, bhūtavidyā, in discourse vs. practice in, fluid/multiple self in, gandharva in, pervasion/immersion in, soma ritual in, and Tantra, transfer of essence in
atirudra
ātkoḷ
ātmabhāvaparigraham
ātmajñānānanda, Svāmī
ātman/brahman
attabhāva
audience. See performative contexts
audience response theory
authenticity: Derrida on, ethnographic overview, and fiction, and Nala’s possession by Kali, and performative contexts
authoritarian societies
Avaloiteśvara
avatār
avatāra: as Viṣṇu’s descents, similarity to āveśa in devotional possession, śarabha. as descent of Bhairava, as a vigraha, on its use in the Āviṣṭaceṣṭāvidhiparivartaḥ
avatolagraha
āvēcam
āveśa, Bengali usage, and bhakti, and bhāva, in Brahmasūtras, in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, and Chinese vocabulary, control of, and creation/incarnation, in devotional literature, and emotion, in Mahābhārata, and Malayalam vocabularies of possession, and possession among deities, review, in Tantra, and transfer of essence, and Vajrayāna Buddhism, Vallabhācārya on, in Vedāntasāra, and vocabularies of possession, in Yogasūtras
ā√viś, and alaṃkāraśāstra, in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, and entrance, in Mahābhārata, and night/darkness, and poetic meters, in Rāmāyaṇa, Sāyaṇa on, and soma ritual, and transfer of essence
avishkara
Āviṣṭaceṣṭāvidhiparivartaḥ (ACVP)
āviṣṭatā
aweishe. See Chinese aweishe ritual
Āyaraṃgasutta
Ayodhyākāṇḍa
Āyurveda, and Atharvaveda, and attabhāva, on bālagrahas, Cakradatta, on disease-producing possession, healing in early texts, and Sāṃkhya, Siddhasāra, skandagrahas in, and svasthāveśa, and Tantra, and textual traditions, and vocabularies of possession, and yoga. See also bhūtavidyā; contemporary Āyurveda
Aziz, Barbara
‘bap pa
Bādarāyaṇa. See Brahmasūtras
bādhā āveśam
bad naẓar
baharṇābhūt
Bahumāṃsā
baithak
Bakhtin, Mikhail
baki
Bālabodha
bālagrahas, and bhūtavidyā, and folk-classical relationship, and healing, and Kuṣāṇas, and Skanda, and svasthāveśa, and women’s preponderance in possession
Bālājī temple: and association of possession with low social status, demographics, and devotion, diversity of healing techniques at, and healing as moral practice, and legal models, pitṛsthān, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and puttalī, recent growth of, rural setting of
Balfour, Henry
bali-ädura
Bāṇabhaṭṭa
bandhanaya
bandhena
bandhutā
Bargen, Doris R.,
Barlow, David
barwa
bayan
bāyu
Becker, Carl
belief vs. practice. See discourse vs. practice
Bell, Catherine
Bellamy, Carla
Bellezza, John
Bengali maṅgalkābyas
Bengali vocabularies of possession
Benz, Ernst
Berglie, Per-Arne
Berti, Daniela
Bertrand, Didier
Beyer, Stephen
bhagat
Bhagavadajjukāprahasanam (Mahendravarman)
bhagavadāveśa
Bhagavad-Gītī (BhG)
Bhāgavata Purāṇa (BhP): Abhinavagupta on, and Bhagavad-Gītā, bhāva in, and fiction, Kṛṣṇa as puruṣottama in, and Nala’s possession by Kali, nyāsa in, 379; practices in, shape-shifting in, and svasthāveśa, and Tamil/Simhala vocabularies of possession, transfer of essence in, Vallabhācārya on
Bhairava: and conversion of spirits, and Hāratī, and legal healing models, and nyāsa, and svasthāveśa
Bhaktamāl (Nābhādas)
bhakti: and āveśa, and ā√viś, brahmanical orthodoxy on, and discourse vs. practice, and Marathi vocabularies of possession, and personhood/self, and philosophical texts, and śakti, and social control/resistance. See also devotion
Bhaktirasāṃṛtasindhu (Rūpa Gosvāmī)
bhaktudù/bhaktudràlu
Bhāmatī (Vācaspatimiśra)
bharā
Bharata
bhar hāoẏā
bhar karā
bharṇābhūt
bhar nāmā
bhasan
Bhāskara
bhasmas
Bhat, M. Ramakrishna
Bhattacharyya, Deborah
Bhaṭṭotpala (Utpala)
bhāva: Bengali usage, in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, and contemporary Āyurveda and devotion, and emotion, and fiction, and nyāsa, and vocabularies of possession
Bhavabhaṭṭa
bhāv ānā
bhāvanā
Bhāvanākrama (BhK)
bhāvāveśa
bhedābheda
Bhoja
Bhoot (Hindi film)
bhopā
Bhramara-Gīta
bhutācā asvār āṇūn
bhūta pattuṇḍu
bhūtapaviṭṭho
bhūtaśuddhi
bhūtavidyā, abhiṣaṅgaja, Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Saṃhitā on, and astrology, in Āviṣṭaceṣṭāvidhiparivartaḥ, Āyurvedic text overview, balagrahas, Bower manuscript on, Caraka Saṃhitā on, and contemporary Āyurveda, and deities, Divehi, and elements, and emotion, and folk-classical relationship, and gandharva, graha overview, Ĩśānaśivagurudevapaddhati on, Madanamahārṇava on, McClintock on, overview, and personality, piśacas, and pregnancy, psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories on, in Purāṇas, and Sāṃkhya, secularization narrative, and sexuality, and Siddhasāra, and skandagrahas, and speech, and Sri Lankan vocabularies of possession, Suśruta Saṃhitā on, and transfer of essence, Varanasi ethnography on, and Vedas. See also disease-producing possession; healing
bhūt bhādā cumaṅkali
bhūt bharā
bhūte āṅgī vāḍhu lāglī
bhūte pāoẏā
bhūt grasth
bhūt kī bīmārī
bhūt lagnā
bhūt-pret
bhūts. See also bhūtavidyā
bhuva
Biardeau, Madeleine
Biernacki, Loriliai
biography
Blackburn, Stuart
Blatty, William Peter
Bloomfield, Maurice
Boddy, Janice
Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā (Kṣemendra)
body, Brahmasūtras on, cakras, composite, and creation/incarnation, and devotion, and discourse vs. practice, divinization of, and fiction, and fluid/multiple self, as inert, and liminality, in Liṅga Purāṇa, lists of body parts, multiple embodiment, nāḍis, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and social control/resistance, and yoga
body piercing
bombo
bone chewing
Bourguignon, Erika
Bower manuscript
Brahmā
bráhman, and creation/incarnation, and dualism/nondualism, and fluid/multiple self, and transfer of essence. See also ātman/brahman
Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa
brahmanism: and Buddhism, and contemporary Āyurveda, and control, and devotion, and discourse vs. practice, and gandharva, and gradual vs. sudden possession, and nyāsa, and possession as practiced behavior, scholarly orthodoxy, and shape-shifting, and soma ritual, and svasthāveśa, and text sources, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci, and Western discourses. See also folk-classical relationship
Brahmasūtrabhāṣya (Śaṇkara)
Brahmasūtras (BS)
brāy
Bṛhadāranyaka Upaniṣad (BĀU): bhūtavidyā in, creation/incarnation in, and discourse vs. practice, gandharva in, localization of divinity in, nyāsa in, and svasthāveśa, transfer of essence in, and Vajrayāna Buddhism
Bṛhaddevatā
Bṛhatkālottara
Bṛhatkalpabhāṣya
Bṛhatsaṃhitā (BṛS) (Varāhamihira)
Brown, Michael F.
Brückner, Heidrun
brujo
Buddha, possession by
Buddhism, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and brahmanism, and Cambodian possession, and contemporary Āyurveda, control in, and conversion of spirits, and devotion, discourse vs. practice in, and folk-classical relationship, and Himalayan vocabularies of possession, and mediumistic possession, nonexistent self in, and prasenā, and sexuality, and shamanism, and Shinto, and Sri Lankan vocabularies of possession, and svasthāveśa, Tibetan Sanskrit literature, in Vikramāditya story, 325; and Yogasūtras (YS). See also Vajrayāna Buddhism
Burrow, Thomas
būta nemā/kolā
Bynum, Caroline Walker
bzung-ba
caḍhnā
Cahill, Thomas
Caitanya. See Śrī Caitanya
caitanya
Caitanyacaritāmṛta (Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja), 351
Caitanyacaritāmṛta (Murārigupta)
caitanyam
cajitas
Cakradatta
cakras
Cakrasaṃvarapiṇḍārtha
Cakrasaṃvara-Tantra
Caland, W.
Calantā
Caldwell, Sarah
Cambodia
cāmiyāṭi
Campany, Robert Ford
Candranandana
Cankam poetry
Caraka Saṃhitā bhūtavidyā in, healing in, and Sāṃkhya
Castillo, Richard
caukī
celibacy
central vs. peripheral possession
Chalmers, David
Chan Buddhism
Chāndogya Upaniṣad (ChU): bhūtavidyā in, creation/incarnation in, nyāsa, oppositional consciousness in, Śaṇkara on, 298; transfer of essence in
Chandrakumar, S. M.
channeling. See New Age trance channeling
The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Brown)
Charcot, Jean Martin
chāttan
childhood possession. See svasthāveśa
childsnatchers. See bālagrahas; skandagrahas
China: ãveśa, children in ritual, cultural migration to, and disease-producing possession, fluid/multiple self in, healing, and Himalayan vocabularies of possession, mediumistic possession, and nyāsa, shamanism, svasthāveśa origin question, See also Chinese aweishe ritual
Chinese aweishe ritual, and Daoism, and mediumistic possession, and prasenā, use of children in
Christianity: ambiguity of possession in, and Assamese vocabularies of possession, and contemporary renewal of oracular possession, and ecstasy, and exorcism, initiatory possession in, and New Age trance channeling, on possession as evil, and pratiṣṭhā, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and Sri Lankan vocabularies of possession, and study of possession, and transfer of essence, unitary self in, and vocabularies of possession. See also Western discourses
chūdāl/cuṛail
chyèkpa
cidãnanda
Cilappatikāram
Citrāṇgada
citta
cittāveśaḥ
Claus, Peter J.
Clifford, Terry
Clooney, Francis
cognitive science
Cohen, Daniel
Collins, Elizabeth Fuller
Collins, Steven
colonialism: and contemporary renewal of oracular possession, and possession as evil, and social control/resistance, and study of possession, and vocabularies of possession
composite self. See fluid/multiple self consciousness: Hegel on, and Himalayan vocabularies of possession, and Malayalam vocabularies of possession, oppositional, problematic nature of term, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and Vedānta, contemporary Āyurveda, and astrology, bhasmas in, and bhãva, and bhūtavidyā, and brūhmanism, and Buddhism, diagnosis in, mantras in, Tibet, and women’s preponderance in possession
control: and association of possession with low social status, and brahmanism, in Buddhism, and emotion, and limits of social control/resistance, and nyāsa, and possession as evil, and ritual, and shape-shifting, and spontaneity, and svasthāveśa, and transfer of essence, and vocabularies of possession. See also social control/resistance
Conversations with God: Book I (Walsch)
conversion of spirits
Coomaraswamy, A. K.
court model. See legal models
creation/incarnation, and dualism/nondualism, and fluid/multiple self, ignorance of, and pervasion/immersion, and primordial embodiment, and transfer of essence, and Vedic theism
cross-dressing
Csordas, Thomas
cumaṇkali
Cuneo, Michael
Cyavana
daivavyapāśraya
daivavyapāsraya-cikitsā
dakṣinācāra
Dalai Lama(s)
Dalai Lama
Ḍalhaṇa
Damayantī. See also Nala’s possession by Kali
Danforth, Loring
daṇgārīya
Daniel, E. Valentine
Daoism
Dārila
darśana
darśapūrṇamāsau
dāruharidrā
Daśakumāracarita (Daṇḍin)
Daśarūpa
Dattatreya
Davidson, Ronald
Davis, Edward L.
dbab pa
De, S. K.
debaddhani festival
DeCaroli, Robert
decentered self. See fluid/multiple self
deception. See authenticity
Deeg, Max
Delmonico, Neal
Delphi oracle
DeMaris, Richard E.
democratization (prajātantra)
demographics: conclusions, and healing, New Age trance channeling. See also folk-classical relationship
demonologies. See bhūtavidyā
deodhā
Derrida, Jacques
dēva āveśam
devācī jhāḍ
devotion, Abhinavagupta on, and ā√viś, Bhagavad-Gītī, and bhāva, and body, and Buddhism, and discourse vs. practice, and fiction, and fluid/multiple self, and folk-classical relationship, and Hanumān, and passion, and personhood/self, and philosophical texts, and religious drama, and śakti, and sexuality, and shamanism, and social control/resistance, Śrī Caitanya, and svasthāveśa, and Tantra, and transfer of essence, and union/separation dialectic, Vallabhācārya, and vocabularies of possession, See also bhakti; Vallabhācārya
devṛṣi
dharmapālas
dharmaśāstra
dhokhebāz
Dhvanyāloka (Ānandavardhana)
Dhvanyālokalocana (Abhinavagupta)
Dhyānabindu Upaniṣad
diagnosis
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
dialogic interaction
Diehl, Carl Gustav
Diemberger, Hildegard
diet
Dietrich, Angela
Dīpikā (Aḍhamalla)
Dirks, Nicholas B.
discourse vs. practice: and bhakti, and body, and brahmanism, in Buddhism, conclusions, and philosophical texts, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and social control/resistance, and study of possession. See also experience
disease-producing possession, diagnosis of, and fluid/multiple self, in Mahābhārata, and moral transgressions, vs. New Age trance channeling, and pervasion/immersion in Vedas, and shamanism, text sources for, and vocabularies of possession. See also bhūtavidyā; healing
displacement
Dissanayake, Wimal
dissociation
Dissociative Identity Disorder
dissociative trance disorder
Divehi
divinization of body, and devotion, and nyāsa, and śaktipāta
dpa’-bo
Draupadī cult (Tamilnadu)
dre
dream
‘dre glud
Dreyfus, Georges
Driver, Tom
dṛṣṭipātam
drug addiction
dualism/nondualism. See also union/separation dialectic
dubiye
Dudbridge, Glen
dukhi
dumbiyānē
Dumont, Louis
Dunne, John
Durgā
Durgāsaptaśati
During Caspers, E.C.L.
Durkheim, Emil
Dwyer, Graham
dyah-mā
dyāh waipī
Eck, Diana
ecstasy
Ecstatic Religion (Lewis)
Eder, Matthias
Edgerton, Franklin
education
effigies. See puttalī
ekāgratā
Eliade, Mircea
eligibility for possession
embodiment. See body
Emeneau, Murray
emergent moods
emotion: and body, in Buddhism, and control, legitimization of, in Mahābhārata, and Malayalam vocabularies of possession, in philosophical texts, and possession as evil, and possession content, as primitive, social construction of, and social control/resistance, somaticization of, and transfer of essence, and vocabularies of possession, and yoga. See also alaṃkāraśāstra
empowerment. See social control/resistance
Engler, Steven
enlightenment: and body, and discourse vs. practice, and fluid/multiple self, and New Age trance channeling, and rasa, in Tantra, in Tibetan Buddhism
Enlightenment (Europe)
entrance: in Mahābhārata, and sexuality, in Vedas. See also ā√viś; pervasion/immersion in Vedas
epics, brahmanical orthodoxy on, and fiction, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, recitation of. See also Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa
epilepsy
Erndl, Kathleen
Ervin, Frank R.
escape
ethics
ethnographies, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and devotional literature, and dualism/nondualism, and fluid/multiple self, possession overview, and shamanism, Varanasi. See also anthropological approaches
Eurocentrism
evil eye
exorcism: and Christianity, contemporary U.S. rise in. See also healing
Exorcism of Emily Rose, The
The Exorcist
experience. See also discourse vs. practice
Fabricius, J. P.
faked possession. See authenticity
fakīr
family therapy
fanḍita
faqīr
fashi
Feldhaus, Anne
feminist theory
Fenner, Todd
ferocity. See raudra
Ferris, Timothy
fiction, Bhagavadajjukāprahasanam, Bloomfield on, contemporary, defined, The Turn of the Screw, Vetālapañcaviṃśati, and yoga. See also alaṃkāraśāstra
film, and devotion, The Exorcist, and fiction, music from
Finn, Louise
fire walking
Fitzgerald, James L.
Flood, Gavin
fluid/multiple self, and agency, and art, and body, and bráhman, contemporary concepts, and creation/incarnation, and devotion, and disease-producing possession, and enlightenment, in film, and gradual vs. sudden possession, and healing, and Himalayan vocabularies of possession, and New Age trance channeling, and nyāsa, and personhood, and shape-shifting, and social control/resistance, and study of possession, and Vedas, vs. Western unitary self, and women’s preponderance in possession
folk-classical relationship, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and association of possession with low social status, and bhūtavidyā, and Buddhism, conclusions, and deities, and devotion, and Draupadī cult, Kerala, and Mahābhārata, and Ṛgveda, and soma ritual, and svasthāveśa, and Tantra, and traditionalization, and Vedas, and vocabularies of possession
Foucault, Michel
Foulston, Lynn
fragmentation
Frank, Jerome D.
Frank, Julia B.
Frasca, Richard
Freed, Ruth
Freed, Stanley
Freeman, Rich
Freud, Sigmund. See Freudian theory
Freudian theory: and bhūtavidyā, and dissociation theory, on hysteria, on obsessive-compulsive disorder, and psychodrama, on Unheimlich. See also psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories
Fuchs, Stephen
fumigation therapy
Fundamentals of Tibetan Medicine
Gaborieau, Marc
gandharva, and abandonment of self, and bhūtavidyā, and brahmanism, in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, contemporary reports of possession by, and insanity, and keśin, and oracular possession, and ritual, and transfer of essence, and Vikramāditya story
Gaṇeśa
Garrett, Clarke
Garuḍa
Gauḍapāda
Geertz, Clifford
Gellner, David N.
Gelong
gender, and abandonment of self, and Buddhism, and central vs. peripheral possession, cross-dressing, and fluid/multiple selfu, and gandharva, role-reversal, and social control/resistance, and svasthāveśa, and Tamil/Simhala vocabularies of possession, and Tantra. See also association of possession with low social status; women; women’s preponderance in possession
genocide
Gesar of Ling
ghee
ghūrṇi
Girard, René
gling
glossalalia
Glucklich, Ariel
Gold, Ann
Gombrich, Richard
Gonda, Jan
Goodman, Felicitas
Goodman, Felicitas D.
Gopīcandana Upaniṣad
gori yùba
graha: Āyurvedic texts on, overview, psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories on, and raudra. See also bālagrahas; bhūtavidyā; skandagrahas
grahacāraya
grahaṇa. See also graha; √gṛh
grhī, as skandāpasmāras in Mahābhārata, in Madanamahārṇava, in Iśānaśivagurudevapaddhati
Gray, David
√gṛh. See also grahaṇa; grahas
gronds-jug
Guangyi ji
Gujarat vocabularies of possession
guṇī
guṇina
Gupta, Dipankar
Gyu-zhi (Candranandana)
Haberman, David
Halbfass, William
Halliburton, Murphy
Halperin, Daniel
Hancock, Mary E.
Handelman, Don
Hanegraaf, Wouter J.
Hanumān, and devotion, and nyāsa, and shape-shifting, and svasthāveśa
Hara, Minoru
Hāratī
Hardy, Friedhelm
Haridāsa
Harper, Edward B.
Harṣacarita (Bāṇabhaṭṭa)
Harṣavardhana
harṣāveś
Hart, George L.
Hartzell, James Francis
havā lagnā
hāzri
healing, animal products used in, and army of spirits, and association of possession with low social status, and bālagrahas, brāy, Cakradatta on, China, and conversion of spirits, and demographics, diversity of techniques, 114, early Āyurvedic texts on, and effigies, and ethnographic overview, and fluid/multiple self, and former trauma, fumigation therapy, healer terms, and Himalayan vocabularies of possession, and interrogation of spirits, legal models, and liminality, and loose hair, as moral practice, and New Age trance channeling, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, shock therapy, and sorcery, and Sri Lankan vocabularies of possession, and surrogate possession, and urban/rural distinction, (Viṣa-) Nārāyaṇīya on, and Western medical paradigm. See also Āyurveda; bhūtavidyā; Chinese aweishe ritual; contemporary Āyurveda; Tantra
Heesterman, J. C.
Hegel, Georg W. F.
Heinroth, Johann Christian August
Hemacandra
Henry, E. O.
Hermes Trismegistus
high-low culture distinction. See folk-classical relationship
Hillman, James
Hiltebeitel, Alf
Himalayan Dialogue (Mumford)
Himalayan vocabularies of possession
Hindi vocabularies of possession
Hinduism, reification of
Hindu nationalism
Hoernle, A. F. R.
Höfer, Andràs
Holy Land Experience
Holy Spirit
homa
Honko, Lauri
humor
Humphrey, Caroline
Hutton, J. H.
Huxley, Aldous
hysteria
identity. See fluid/multiple self; self
illness. See disease-producing possession
impersonation
incarnation. See also body
Inden, Ronald
Indra: and bhūtavidyā, and shape-shifting, and transfer of essence, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci
Indradatta
Ingalls, Daniel H. H.
Inglis, Stephen
initiation: and ā√viś, in Christianity, and control, and divinization of body, and eligibility for possession, and enlightenment, and fluid/multiple self, and mudrās, and personhood, and possession as knowledge, and possession as practice, and rasa, and social control/resistance, and text sources, in Vajrayāna Buddhism, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci, and vocabularies of possession, and women’s preponderance in possession
inner organ
insanity: and eligibility for possession, and skandagrahas, unmāda. See also bhūtavidyā; healing
intermedial state. See liminality
interpenetration
interrogation of spirits
Irish
érṣyāveś
Irula vocabularies of possession
Ĩśānaśivagurudevapaddhati (ĨŚP), bālagrahas in, bhūtavidyā in, and contemporary Āyurveda, svasthāveśa in
Ĩśā Upaniṣad
Islam: and adālat, and contemporary Āyurveda, and vocabularies of possession
Ĩśvara
Ĩśvarapratyabhijñākārikā (Utpaladeva)
Iyanaga, Nobumi
jādugar
jāḍuṭonā
jāgar
Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa (JB)
Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa (JUB), 198, 199
Jainism, xxiv; and alaṃkāraśāstra, brahmanical orthodoxy on, on emotion, and fiction, on Nala’s possession by Kali, on personhood/self, and prasenā, and svasthāveśa, and Vikramāditya story, and yoga, Yogaśāstra (Hemacandra)
jāki
Jakobsen, Merete Demant
Jambhaladatta
James, Henry
James, Henry, Sr.
James, William
Jamison, Stephanie
Janet, Pierre
janka
Japan
Jātakamālā (Āryaśūra)
Jātakas
jaṭãmāṃsī
jāya
Jayadrathayāmala (JY)
jāyakāra
Jayākhya Saṃhitā
Jayamaṅgalā
Jayaratha
Jejuri mass possession
Jesus
jhāḍ
jhāḍṇewālā
jhākri
jhārphuk
Jilek, W. G.
Jinadāsagaṇi Mahattara
jinnis
jinn/jind
Jīva Gosvāmī
jīvanmukti
jñānasattva/samayasattva
joga ugādu
Johnson, W. J.
Jonas, Adolphe D.
Jones, J. J.
Jones, Rex L.,
Jung, Carl
Jungian theory
jyotiṣa. See astrology
kabirāj
Kaivalya Upaniṣad
Kakar, Sudhir
Kālacakratantra (KT)/Laghuālaeakratantra
kālanāyakagraha
kaḷarippayattu
Kali. See also Nala’s possession by Kali
Kālidāsa
Kāli/Kāli
Kālikā Purāṇa (KāP)
Kāli’s Child (Kripal)
Kalkin Śrīpuṇḍarīka
Kalmāṣapāda, King. See Vasiṣṭha and King Kalmāṣapāda
Kalpataruparimala (Appayya Dīkṣita)
kāmadhenu
Kāmākhyā
Kamalaśīla
kāmarūpin
kāmaśāstra
kāmāveś
kamma
kampakāla (orgasm)
Kane, P. V.
kanyā
kaozhao
Kapadia, Karin
Kapferer, Bruce
kapisainyaprakāra
Karim, Anwarul
karma. See also kamma
karmavipāka
Karmavipāka-saṅgraha
karṇagraha
karṇapiśāca
Karpūramañjari
Karumāriyamman
karuṇā-bharala
Kāśyapa Kalpasthānam (KSKa)
Kāśyapa-Saṃhitā (KS)
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā (KS)
Kathāmṛta
Kathāsaritsāgara (KSS), anugraha in, 485; dualism/nondualism in, and fiction, sexuality in, svasthāveśa in
Kaṭha Upaniṣad (KU)
kathāvācaks
kaṭṭāḍiya
kaṭṭātikal
Kauśikasūtra
Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad (KṣU)
Kaw, R. K.
Keith, A. B.
Keller, Mary
Kelly, George Armstrong
Kerala. See also contemporary Āyurveda; Malayalam vocabularies of possession
kēruka
Keśavakāśmīrabhaṭṭa
keśin
Keśin Dārbhya
Khaḍgarāvaṇa
khakhōrda
Khaṇḍobā
Khaṇḍobā festival (Jejuri)
khelnā
khhelye khhaba
Khusraw, Amir
kīlaka
Kjaerholm, Lars
Kleinman, Arthur
klība
Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim
Knight, J. Z.
Knipe, David
kōmaram
kōriccu varutal
Kosambi, D. D.
kōṭaṅki
Kramasūtras
Kripal, Jeffrey
krodhāveś
kṛpāveś
Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja
Kṛṣṇa līlā
Kṣemarāja
Kṣemendra
kudṛṣṭi
Kuhn, A.
Kulagahvaratantra
Kulārṇavatantra (KAT)
Kumar, Abhimanyu
kumārī
kumbhakagraha
kuṇḍalinī
kuṇḍalinī śakti
Kuṣāṇas
Kusum
kūṭuka
Kuvera
Laidlaw, James
lajye cuṇba
Lalitāditya
lama, on Lamaist ideology, as spirit
Lambek, Michael
Lambert, H.
Langford, Jean M.
language. See vocabularies of possession
Lariviere, Richard
larje
Larson, Bob
Larson, Gerald
law. See dharmaśāstra
Lawrence, Patricia
legal models, bhūts, and healing, and New Age trance channeling
Levy, Robert I.
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
Lewis, I. M.
Lewis, Todd
Lewis-Fernández, Roberto
lexicography. See vocabularies of possession
lha (Tib. deity or spirit)
lha-babs (Tib. oracular possession)
lhaba/lha pa (Tib. oracle)
liberation. See enlightenment
līlā performers
liminality: and bhakti, and body, and contemporary Āyurveda, and entrance, and gradual vs. sudden possession, and healing, and Nala’s possession by Kali, and nyāsa, and ritual, and sexuality, and shape-shifting, and social control/resistance. See also fluid/multiple self
Liṅga Purāṇa
linguistics. See vocabularies of possession
literacy
literary record. See text sources
Littlewood, Roland
lobhāveś
localization of divinity
love. See sexuality
Luminous Web of Precious Visions
lunar asterisms (nakṣatra)
Lutgendorf, Philip
Lutz, Catherine
Lutze, Lothar
luyar
Lynch, Owen
Macdonald, Alexander W.
Madanamahārṇava (MM) (Viśveśvara Bhaṭṭa)
Mādhava-Vidyāraṇya
Mahābhārata (MBh) and alaṃkāraśāstra, āveśa in, bhūtavidyā in, dates of, diachronic aspects of possession in, disease-producing possession in, dualism/nondualism in, entrance in, escape in, and fiction, as fiction, and folk-classical relationship, gandharva in, guilt in, importance of, influence of, interpenetration in, interpersonal possession in, Kṛṣṇa as puruṣottama in, and Liṅga Purāna, millenarianism in, oppositional consciousness in, vs. Rāmāyaṇa, rasa in, and Sāṃkhya, shape-shifting in, Śiva’s possession of Aśvatthāman, skandagrahas in, transfer of essence in, and Vajrayāna Buddhism, Vasiṣṭha and King Kalmāṣapāda, Vidura’s possession of Yudhiṣṭhira, violence in, vocabularies of possession in, and women’s preponderance in possession, and Yogavāsiṣṭha. See also Nala’s possession by Kali; Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci
mahābhāva
Mahādeva
Mahāsutasoma Jātaka
mahā-ullās
Mahāvaṃsa
Mahāvastu
Mahāvidyā
Mahendravarman. See also Bhagavadajjukāprahasanam
Maheśvara
Mahīdhara
māi/māiju
Maitrāyaṇi Saṃhitā (MS)
Maitrāyaṇi Upaniṣad
Mālavayā
Malayalam vocabularies of possession
Mālinīvijayottara
Maloney, Clarence
manas
Manasā
maṇḍalas: in contemporary Āyurveda, and divinization of body, and possession as knowledge, in svasthāveśa, in Tantra, 399; in Vajrayāna Buddhism
Maṇḍana Miśra
Māṇikkavācakar
Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa
Mantramahodadhi (MM) (Mahīdhara)
Mantrapuṣpam
mantras: and bālagrabas in contemporary Āyurveda, and divinization of body, in nyāsa, and soma ritual, in svasthāveśa, in Vajrayāna Buddhism, (Viṣa-) Nārāyaṇīya on
mantravidyā
māntrika
Manu’s cups myth
Marathi vocabularies of possession
marginalized people. See association of possession with low social status
Māriamman
marriage
Marriott, McKim
martial arts
maruḻ oṭutal
maruḷu
masks
Masson, J. Moussaieff
māthā-garam
māthā-khārãp
māthāra golamāla
māthār golmāl
mativah
Matsya Purāṇa
Mattavilāsa (Mahendravarman)
maulvī
Mauss, Marcel
Mayaram, Shail
Mayer, Robert
Mayes, Elizabeth
Mayrhofer, Manfred
mayṭu battuṇḍu
Mayūracandrikā Bhasma
mayūrapiccha
McClintock, Wayne
McDaniel, June
mediumistic possession: and Buddhism, and New Age trance channeling, and shamanism, and Vajrayāna Buddhism. See also New Age trance channeling; oracular possession
men. See gender
menstruation
mental illness. See bhūtavidyā; disease-producing possession
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Merutuṇga
Meulenbeld, Jan
Meyer, Eveline
mikha
Miles, Jack
milk
millenarianism
miracles
mirrors: and Himalayan vocabularies of possession, and prasenā, and svasthāveśa, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci
mkha’ ‘gro Ye shes mtsho rgyal
Mkhas Grub Rje
modernity
mohāveś
mokṣa
Molesworth, J. T.
Monier-Williams, M.
monotheism
Moreno, J. L.
Moreno, Manuel
Morris, Rosalind C.
MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder)
mṛtyuñjaya homa
much-lāge
mudiyettu
mudrās: and divinization of body, and nyāsa, in Vajrayāna Buddhism
Muller-Ortega, Paul Eduardo
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
multiple self. See fluid/multiple self
Mumford, Stan Royal
Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad
muni
Murārigupta
Murphy, Jane
Murphy, Jane M.
Murugaṉ
music
Muslims. See Islam
Naagin
Nābhādās
Nabokov, Isabelle
nāḍis
Nāgārjuna
nā/fas: Āyurvedic texts on, in Bower manuscript, in Gyu-zhi, in Ĩśanaśivagurudevapaddhati, and Nala’s possession by Kali, and piśācas, and Sāṃkhya, in Upaniṣads, in Vajrayāna Buddhism
nakṣatra (lunar asterisms)
Nala’s possession by Kali, and abandonment of self, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and authenticity, and escape, and guilt, Jain version of, and raudra, and self, and violence
namājī
Nambiyar, M. R.
Nambudiri, Nilakanthan
Nambudiri, Vaidyamadham Narayanan
Nambudiripad, Kumaraswami
Nammāḻvār
Nandy, Ashis
Nārāyaṇapūrvatāpanīya Upaniṣad
Nārāyaṇa Tīrtha
narrative elements. See also epics; fiction
nārttikam
Nātyaśāstra (Bharata)
Nechung oracle
negative possession: and female competence, in Mahābhārata, and Marathi vocabularies of possession, and pervasion/immersion in Vedas, and Tamil/Simhala vocabularies of possession. See also bhūtavidyā; healing; sorcery
nērttikam
Netra Tantra
neurophysiology
New Age trance channeling, and charismatic/Pentecostal Christianity, content of, demographics of, and folk-classical relationship, and healing, legal issues, legitimization of, and nostalgia, and social control/resistance
night/darkness
Nīlamata Purāṇa (NP)
Nimbārka
Nirodhalakṣaṇa (Vallabhācārya)
nirvikalpasamādhi
Niśisaṃcāratantra
Niśītha Cūrṇi
Niṣpannayogāvalī
Niṣvāsaguhya
niveśanam
nonexistent self
nostalgia
Nuckolls, Charles
nyāsa, Bhāgavata Purāṇa example, and Daoism, and deity, etymology of, examples of, and fluid/multiple self, Kulārṇavatantra example, and mudrās, popularity of, and possession as knowledge, and pratiṣṭhā, Rudrādhyāya example, and sexuality, and shamanism, and shape-shifting, and Tibetan Buddhism, and vocabularies of possession, and yoga
Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism
Oberlies, Thomas
Obeyesekere, Gananath
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Odysseus
ojhā
Olivelle, Patrick
onbo
Ong, Walter
oppression. See social control/resistance
oracular possession: and Buddhism, contemporary renewal of, and gandharva, New Age trance channeling as, and pain, and performative contexts, psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and shamanism, and social control/resistance, in Tantra/Āyurveda, and Tulu/Irula vocabularies of possession, in Vajrayāna Buddhism, and vāta, See also mediumistic possession; svasthāveśa
orientalism, See also Western discourses
Orofino, Giacomella
Orsi, Robert
Ortner, Sherry
Östör, Akos
Padakusalamāṇava Jātaka
padmapurāṇ
Padmasambhava
Padoux, André
paḍthal
pāgalāmi
Paheli (The Riddle) (Hindi film)
pain
Pāiasaddamahaṇṇavo (PSM)
paju
Pakaslahti, Antti
Pāli vaṃsas
Palsule, G. B.
Pañcapadyāni (Vallabhācārya)
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa
Pāṇḍav Līlā
paṇḍita
pāpadṛṣṭi
Paper, Jordan
parakāyapraveśa
parakāyapraveśavidyā
Paramādibuddha
Paramārthagāthā
Paramārthasāra
parasparānupraveśa
Parātriṃsikālaghuvṛtti (PTLV)
Parātriśikālaghuvṛtti (Abhinavagupta)
parhez
Parkinson, Edward
Parpola, Asko
Parry, Jonathan P.
Pārśvanātha Caritra
partial incarnation
participation mystique
pasiṇa
passion
paśvā
Patañjali
pātri
payaṇkara
performative contexts, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and authenticity, and oracular possession, and Rāmāyaṇa, and rasa, and svasthāveśa
permeable self. See fluid/multiple self
personality: and ātman, and attabhāva/puggala, in Āyurvedic texts, and bhūtavidyā, and fluid/multiple self, fragmentation of, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and shape-shifting, and Śiva’s possession of Aśvatthāman, and social control/resistance, and svasthāveśa, 422. See also self
personhood: in Buddhism, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, vs. self, and shamanism, and vocabularies of possession
pervasion/immersion in Vedas, Agni, and creation/incarnation, disease images, and entrance, and interpenetration, and keśin, and negative possession, 194; and night/darkness, and poetic meters, pra√viś, and ritual, and soma ritual, and speech, and surā
Petthavatthu
pēy
pey piriehu
pēy piṭikkatu
Pfleiderer, Beatrix
phauj
philosophical texts
Brahmasūtras, Buddhism, Buddhist Sanskrit literature, and discourse vs. practice, and ethics, Yogavāsiṣṭha, See also Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka; Yogasūtras
Philostratus
pīr
Piśācamocan temple
piśācas
piśācāveś
pitṛ: Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Saṃhitā on, Āyurvedic texts on, and bālagrahas, Caraka Saṃhitā on, in contemporary Āyurveda, and diagnosis, and insanity, in Ĩśanaśivagurudevapaddhati, and legal healing models, Madanamahārṇava on, and piśācas, Sāṃkhya on, Suśruta Saṃhitā on, text sources for
pitṛsthān
play
Pocock, David
poetic meters
poetic theory. See alaṃkāraśāstra
politics
Pollock, Sheldon
polyvalent self. See fluid/multiple self
popular culture
positivism
possessed as vessel
possession: anthropological definitions as coming into being, ethnographic overview, gradual vs. sudden, multidimensionality of, problematic nature of term, release from, vs. transfer of essence, type review
possession as evil, Christianity on, as misconception
possession as ontological reality
possession as practiced behavior: and brahmanism, and escape, and Malayalam vocabularies of possession, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories
possession as primitive, See also association of possession with low social status
poy āṭṭam
Prabandha-cintāmaṇi
pracāra
practice vs. discourse. See discourse vs. practice
Prahlāda
Prajāpati
prajātantra (democratization)
Prakāśa (Vallabhācārya)
pramāṇa
prāṇa
prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā, See also pratiṣṭhā
prānāyāma
pra√pad
prasenā, and astrology, and Buddhism, and Chinese aweishe ritual, etymology of, and folk-classical relationship, and karṇagraha, and mirrors, in svasthāveāa ritual, text sources for, Utpala on
praśna
Praśnamārga (PrMā)
Praśna Upaniṣad (PU)
Pratisenāvatāratantra
pratiṣṭhā
Pratyabhijñahṛdayam (Kṣemarāja)
Pravacanasārodhāra
praveśa, See also pra√viś
pra√viś: and creation/incarnation, and fiction, in Mahābhārata, andpra√pad, and transfer of essence, in Vedas, See also praveśa
pravṛttam
pregnancy
preta: in Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Saṃhitā, Aṣṭāṇgahṛdaya Saṃhitā on, 496; Āyurvedic texts on, in Bower manuscript, and ethnographic overview, and nyāsa, and transfer of essence, Varanasi ethnography on, and vocabularies of possession
preta doṣa
pretpañcāyat
Pretrāj
primitivism. See possession as primitive primordial embodiment
projection
Proudfoot, Wayne
psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and anthropological approaches, and asceticism, on bhūtavidyā, and body, and Christianity, cultural sensitivity in, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders on, and discourse vs. practice, dissociation theory, and epics, and externalizing primitive, hysteria, on obsessive-compulsive disorder, and oracular possession, and physiological evidence, and possession as practiced behavior, and social construction of emotion, vs. social control/resistance
psychodrama
puḍiccikiraḍu
puggala
pukutal
pūnakam
Purāṇas, bālagrahas in, bhūtavidyā in, and fiction, fluid/multiple self in, interpersonal possession in, See also Bhāgavata Purāna; Brahmāṇda Purāṇa; Kālikā Purāṇa
puruṣa
Puruṣottama
Pūrvamīmāṃsā
Pūrvamāmāṃsāsūtras
Pūtanā
puttalī
Raheja, Gloria
Rajam, V. S.
Rājaśekhara
rakṣas/rākṣasa: in Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Saṃhitā, Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya Saṃhitā on, Āyurvedic texts on, Bower manuscript on, in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, contemporary reports of possession by, and fluid/multiple self, and insanity, Ĩśanaśivagurudevapaddhati on, Liṅga Purāṇa on, Madanamahārṇava on, Mahābhārata on, and moral certainty, and piśācas, Rāmāyaṇa on
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Raman, Bangalore Venkata
Rāmānuja
Ramanujan, A. K.
Ramaswamy, Vijaya
Rāmāyaṇa, ā√viś in, gandharva in, moral certainty in, and performative contexts, sexuality in, shape-shifting in, and svasthāveśa
Ramtha
Rao, M. Srinivasa
rasa: and bhakti, and brahmanism, categories, and devotion, and ethnographies, and fiction, and gandharva, and transfer of essence, See also emotion
Rasaratnasamuccaya
rasāyaṇa
rationalization, in fiction
Ratnakūṭa
rātrī
raudra: and āveśa, Āyurvedic texts on, as rasa category, and sacrifice, in Vajrayāna Buddhism, and violence
Ravigupta
realization. See enlightenment
Reat, N. Ross
“religion” term
religious drama, and devotion, and Rāmāyaṇa
Renou, Louis
Ṛgveda (ṚV), Agni in, anugraha in, and art, ā√viś in, and bhāva, bhūtavidyā in, on body, and devotion, disease images in, entrance in, and folk-classical relationship, gandharva in, interpenetration in, keśin in, oppositional consciousness in, poetic meters in, shape-shifting in, soma ritual in, speech in, See also pervasion/immersion in Vedas
Rgyud sde spyiḥi rnam par ‘zag pa rgyas par brjod
Richardson, Hugh
riding/mounting vocabularies of possession
Rigopoulos, Antonio
Ripinsky-Naxon, Michael
ritual: anthropological approaches on, in contemporary Āyurveda, and control, and divinization of body, and ethnographic overview, and folk-classical relationship, and gandharva, and gradual vs. sudden possession, and initiation, and Marathi vocabularies of possession, and New Age trance channeling, and pervasion/immersion in Vedas, and possession as practiced behavior, and shape-shifting, and social control/resistance, and Tantra, and text sources, and Tibetan Buddhism, and traditionalization, and transfer of essence, and vocabularies of possession, See also nyāsa; svasthāveśa
The Ritual Process (Turner)
rnam sloes
Robinet, Isabelle
rojā
ro-langs
Rorty, Richard
Rouget, Gilbert
ṛṣis
Ruben, Walter
Ruci. See Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci
Rudra
Rudrādhyāya, Rūpa Gosvāmī
Rūpa Kavirāja
rūpāntarakṛti
sacrifice: and ethnographic overview, and raudra, and Tamil vocabularies of possession, and transfer of essence, See also violence
SacrificedWife/Sacrificer’sWife (Jamison)
sādhana
Sādhanamālā
sahṛdaya
Sai Baba
Said, Edward
Śaivaparibhāṣā (Śivāgrayogin)
śakti
śaktipāta
sālāvaidyam
samādhi: and devotion vs. samāveśa, in Tantra, and yoga
samāpatti
samāropaṇa
samāveśa, as enlightenment, as knowledge, as practice, review, vs. samādhi, sectarian differences in
sam-ā√viś
samayasattva/jñānasattva
sami ati
Sāṃkhya, and Āyurveda, and bhūtavidyā, and body, and transfer of essence
Sāṃkhyakārikā (SK)
Sāṃkhykārikābhāṣya (Gauḍapāda)
Saṃkṣepa-Bhāgavatāmṛta (Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Saṃnyāsanirṇaya (Vallabhācārya)
saṃpratti/saṃpradēna
saṃsāraveśa
saṃskāra
Samuel, Geoffrey
saṃyama
Sanderson, Alexis
Sankalia, H. D.
Śaṅkara, See also Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka
Śaṅkarābhyudaya
Śaṅkarācāryas
Śaṅkaradigvijaya (ŚDV) (Mādhava-Vidyāraṇya)
Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka, and abandonment of self, and alaṃkāraśāstra, content of, and discourse vs. practice, and dualism/nondualism, and escape, and gandharva, and sexual abuse, and Śivājī, text sources for, and Vikramāditya story, and yoga
Sanskritization. See brahmanism; folk-classical relationship
śanta
Saramā
Sarvabuddhasamāyogaḍākinījālasaṃvara
Sarvadharmasaṃgrahavaipulya Sūtra
Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha
śāstra: and Āyurveda, and Brahma-sūtras, and eligibility, and emotion, and fiction, and folk-classical relationship, and Mahābhārata, and philosophical texts, and Tantra, and transfer of essence, See also brahmanism; specific śāstras
śāstrakāraya
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (ŚB): creation/incarnation in, fluid/multiple self in, healing in, and nyāsa, oppositional consciousness in, pervasion/immersion in, sexuality in, transfer of essence in
śatarudrīya
Sātī Āsarā
sattvas
sattvāvajaya
satyasaṃkalpatvāt
Sauptikaparvan
śauryāveś
śavasādhana
Sax, William
sayana
Sāyaṇa
scapegoating
Schelling, F. W.
Schleiermacher, Arthur
Schmidt, Hanns-Peter
Schmithausen, Lambert
Schoembucher, Elizabeth
scholarly orthodoxies: brahmanical neglect of possession in, problematization of religion term in, reification of culture in, See also study of possession
science, See also psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories; Western discourses
Scott, A. O.
Scott, David
Seeman, Don
Seidel, Anna
Sekoddeśa
self: abandonment of, and bhāva, fragility of, and Nala’s possession by Kali, as nonexistent, vs. personhood, See also fluid/multiple self; personality; unitary self
Seligmann, Brenda
Seligmann, C. G.
semantics. See vocabularies of possession
Śerāṇvālī
sexual abuse
sexuality: and aṇaṅku, and bhūtavidyā, and devotion, and divinization of body, and entrance, and ethnographic overview, in fiction, and gandharva, and nyāsa, and riding/mounting vocabulary, and Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka, and svasthāveśa, and transfer of essence, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci, and Western discourses, and women’s preponderance in possession
shamanism and Assamese vocabularies of possession, and Buddhism, and central vs. peripheral possession, China, confusion about, in early Indus civilization, and ecstasy, ethnographic interest in, and folk-classical relationship, and gandharva, and grabaṇa, and Hanumān, and keśin, and mediumistic possession, New Age, and nyāsa, and oracular possession, and personhood, and shape-shifting, and soul-journeying, and svasthāveśa, and text sources, Tibet, and Tulu/Irula vocabularies of possession, and vocabularies of possession,
shape-shifting, and animals, and brahmanism, and Brahmasūtras, and fluid/multiple self, and Indra, in Mahābhārata, and masks, purpose of, and ritual, and shamanism
Sharf, Robert
Sharma, Priya Vrat
Shastri, Ajaya Mitra
Shinto
Shirokogoroff, Sergei
shock therapy
Shukla, K. P.
Shulman, David
“sick medicine-man” thesis
Siddhasāra (Ravigupta)
sidh
sight
Sikhism
śilpiśālā
Simhala vocabularies of possession
Simons, Ronald C.
Sinh Jee, Bhagwat
síṅsiṅ-khòlkhol
Siri epic
sir/kum caṛhnu
śiśugraha
Śītalā
Śītapūtanā
Śiva: and bāladrahas, and bhūtavidyā, Buddhist transformation of, conversion of, and emotion, and fluid/multiple self, and folk-classical relationship, and possession as knowledge, possession of brahman’s corpse, and svasthāveśa
Śivadāsa
Śivadṛṣṭi (Somānanda)
Śivāgrayogin
Śivājī
Śivārkamaṇidīpikā (Appayya Dīkṣita)
Śiva’s possession of Aśvatthāman
Skanda, See also skandagrahas
skandagrahas
Skanda Purāṇa
smara
śmaśāna sādhana
Smith, John
smṛti
Sṅags rim chen mo
Snell, Bruno
Snellgrove, David
sngags-pa
social control/resistance, and anthropological approaches, and bhūtavidyā, and body, and colonialism, and emotion, and ethnographic overview, and fluid/multiple self, limits of, and New Age trance channeling, and oracular possession, and ritual, and shamanism, and Tamil/Simhala vocabularies of possession, and text sources, Tibet, and Vikramāditya story, and women’s preponderance in possession
social status. See association of possession with low social status; demographics
śokāveś
sokhā
Solomon, Robert C
Soma: and creation/incarnation, and entrance, and gandharva, and interpenetration, and marriage, and soma ritual
Somadeva
Somānanda
soma ritual, and ā√viś, and brahmanism, and gandharva, and pervasion/immersion in Vedas
Sontheimer, G.-D.
sorcery: and bhūtavidyā, and healing, and Himalayan vocabularies of possession
speaking in tongues
speech: and gandharva, and pervasion/immersion
spontaneity
śraddhā
śraddhāviveśa
śrauta
Sri Aurobindo
Śrī Caitanya
Śrīkaṇṭha
Śrīkṛṣnasandarbha (Jīva Gosvāmī)
Sri Lankan vocabularies of possession
Srinivas, Smriti
Śrīśaṅkaravijaya (ŚV) (Anantānandagiri)
śṛṅgāra
Śrīnīvāsācārya
Staal, Frits
Stablein, William
Stanley, John
Stein, Rolf A.
Stigmata
Stoller, Paul
Strickmann, Michel
study of possession, and discourse vs. practice, and emotion, Eurocentrism in, and fluid/multiple self, fundamental questions in, and literacy, modern attractiveness of, theories, and vocabularies of possession, See also anthropological approaches; scholarly orthodoxies; text sources
Subala Upaniṣads
Subhagānandanātha
Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa
Subodhinī (Vallabhācārya)
substance-code
śuddādvaita
suhāg
suicide
Śuklayajurveda
surā
surrogate possession
Suśruta Saṃhitā, bhūtavidyā in, healing in, and Sāṃkhya, and svasthāveśa
Sutherland, Gail Hinich
Sūtrakṛtāṅga Sūtra
Sutta Piṭaka
Suvarṇasaptati
svasthāveśa, and Alexander the Great, and Chinese aweishe ritual, Chinese origin question, current practice of, and Dalai Lamas, and devotion, and dream, epigraphical evidence for, and folk-classical relationship, and Hanumān, in Ĩśānaśivagurudevapaddhati, in Mantramahodadhi, ritual of, South India, in Tantrarāja, text sources for, use of children in, See also prasenā
svayamāveśa
Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (ŚvetU)
Svoboda, Robert
Svopajñavivaraṇa (Hemacandra)
symbolism
Tachikawa, Musashi
tailabindu-parīkṣa
Taittirīya Āraṇyaka
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa (TB)
Taittirīya Saṃhitā (TS): animals in, anugraha in, gandharva in, nyāsa in, pervasion/immersion in, poetic meters in, shape-shifting in, transfer of essence in
Taittirīya Upaniṣad (TU)
Taiwan
The Tale of Genji
Tambiah, Stanley
Tamil vocabularies of possession, and devotion
Tantra, and art, and ā√viś, and Āyurveda, on body, brahmanical orthodoxy on, divinization of body in, on emotion, and fluid/multiple self, possession as enlightenment in, possession as knowledge in, possession as practice in, and rasa, and ritual, śāstra, sectarian differences within, and Vikramāditya story, See also nyāsa; svasthāveśa; Vajrayāna Buddhism
Tantrāloka (Abhinavagupta)
Tantrarāja (TR)
Tantrārthāvatāra-vyākhyāna
Tantrasadhbhāva
Tantric Buddhism. See Vajrayāna Buddhism
Tantric Healing in the Kathmandu Valley (Dietrich)
Tarabout, Gilles
Tara Devi
Tattvārthadīpanibandha (Vallabhācārya)
Tawney, C. H.
Taylor, Mark C.
Teiser, Stephen F.
Telugu vocabularies of possession
temo
terms. See vocabularies of possession
text sources, and brahmanism, conclusions, for disease-producing possession, for prasenā, for Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka, and shamanism, and social control/resistance, for svasthāveśa, for vocabularies of possession, See also specific sources
teyvam āṭukākkal
teyyam
teyyam tuḷḷal
teyyāṭṭam
Tezuka, Osama
Thailand
Thaipusam festival (Malaysia/Singapore)
Ṭhānaṃgasutta
theory vs. practice. See discourse vs. practice
Thirumulpad, Raghavan
Thomas, Keith
Thompson, George
Tibet: bhūtavidyā, Buddhist Sanskrit literature, Chinese occupation of, contemporary Āyurveda, Dalai Lamas, Gesar of Ling, incarnation as possession in, shamanism, social control/ resistance, state oracle, svasthāveśa, vocabularies of possession, women’s preponderance in possession, See also Himalayan vocabularies of possession; Vajrayāna Buddhism
Tieken, Herman J. H.
tirayāṭṭam
Ṭoḍarānanda
Totula
tovil
traditionalization
trance, vs. ecstasy
trance channeling. See New Age trance channeling
tranquility. See śānta
transfer of essence, in Atharvaveda, and bhūtavidyā, and body part lists, in Brāhmaṇa texts, in Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, in Chāndogya Upaniṣad, and Christianity, and control, and creation/incarnation, and emotion, and fluid/multiple self, and gandharva, and Manu’s cups myth, vs. possession, and possession as ontological reality, and pregnancy, and rasa, and ritual, and sacrifice, and scape-goating, and suicide, and Vedas, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci
transgression
Trautmann, Thomas R.
Trawick, Margaret
treatment. See healing
Trenckner, V.
Tsongkh’apa
tuk/tuktāka
tuḷḷal
Tulpule, S. G.
Tulu vocabularies of possession
turīya
Turner, Edith
Turner, Victor
The Turn of the Screw (James)
Ubhayabhāratī
Ucchuṣma
Uganda
uncanny. See Unheimlich
Unheimlich
union/separation dialectic, See also dualism/nondualism
unitary self, in Christianity, and fundamental questions, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, See also fluid/multiple self; Western discourses
unmāda, Atharvaveda on, and bhūtavidyā overview, Bower manuscript on, Cakradatta on, Caraka Saṃhitā on, contemporary Āyurveda on, diagnosis of, and māthār golmāl, Praśnamārga (PrMā) on, psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories on, Vīrasiṃhāvaloka on, See also bhūtavidyā; disease-producing possession
upahata
Upaniṣads, anugraha in, on ātman/brahman, bhūtavidyā in, on body, and brahmanism, and Brahmasūtras, creation/incarnation in, and discourse vs. practice, dualism/nondualism in, gandharva in, localization of divinity in, and nyāsa, pervasion/immersion in, and philosophical texts, shape-shifting in, and Tibetan Buddhism, transfer of essence in
ūpar āna
ūpar honā
upari havā
Upasani Maharaj
Upasena Gurunnanse
uṟayuka
urban/rural distinction
Urdu vocabularies of possession
Utpala (Bhaṭṭotpala)
Utpaladeva
Vāc
vacā
Vācaspatimiśra
Vāḍirāja
Vāgbhaṭa
vaidyas, See also healing
Vaikhānasa Āgama
Vaiṣṇava schools
Vajpeyi, Ananya
Vajrapāṇi
Vajrāveśa
Vajrayāna Buddhism, and brahmanism, contemporary practice, emotion in, and folk-classical relationship, initiation in, Kālacakratantra, máṇḍalas in, samayasattva/jñānasattva, and shamanism, and vocabularies of possession
vakku
vākku solluratu
valgan
Vallabhācārya, on aesthetics of possession, on āveśa, and bhāva, and dualism/nondualism, on saṃsārāveśa, and yoga
Vāmakeśvara Tantra
vaniṣṭusava
Varāha
Varāhamihira
Varanasi ethnography
Varier, P. S.
varuka
Varuṇa
Vasiṣṭha and King Kalmāṣapāda
vasos prefiridos
Vāsuki
vāta
Vātsīputrīyas
Vedānta, Yogavāsiṣṭha, See also Śaṇkara’s possession of Amaruka
Vedāntakaustubha (Śrīnīvāsācārya)
Vedāntakaustubhaprabhā (Keśavakāśmīrabhaṭṭa)
Vedāntasāra
vedarala
Vedas: anugraha in, and bhūtavidyā, brahmanical orthodoxy on, eligibility for possession in, and fluid/multiple self, and folk-classical relationship, gandharva in, √gṛh in, importance of, localization of divinity in, manifestation of, oppositional consciousness in, shape-shifting in, vipra, See also creation/incarnation; pervasion/immersion in Vedas; Ṛgveda; transfer of essence
Vedic theism
Velankar, H. D.
veḷiccappeṭuka
veḷicchapāṭu
vétala
Vetālapañcaviṃśati, See also Vikramāditya story
Vidagdhamādhava (Rūpa Gosvāmī)
Vidhānamālā
Vidura’s possession of Yudhiṣṭhira
vidyā
vigraha
Vijñānabhairava
Vijñānabhikṣu
Vikramāditya story
Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra
Vimalaprabhā (Kalkin Śrīpuṇḍarīka)
violence: and bhūtavidyā, conclusions, and emotion, and ethnographic overview, and healing, Indo-European examples, in Mahābhārata, as memorable
vipra
Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and sexuality, and shape-shifting, and transfer of essence, and Vajrayāna Buddhism, and Vikramāditya story, violence in, and yoga
vīra
Vīrasiṃhāvaloka
√viś
(Viṣa-) Nārāyaṇiya
viśiṣṭādvaita
Viṣṇu: and folk-classical relationship, possession of kings, and transfer of essence
Visuvalingam, Elizabeth-Chalier
Visuvalingam, Sunthar
viśva
Viśvarūpa
Viśveśvara Bhaṭṭa
Vivaraṇa (Śaṇkara)
Viveka (Jayaratha)
Vivekananda, Swami
Vivṛtivimarśinī (Abhinavagupta)
vocabularies of possession, and alaṃkāraśāstra, and anthropological approaches, Assam, Bengali, Chinese, and control, and emotion, English term, experience, extent of, and folk-classical relationship, Gujarat, Himalayan, Hindi, and literacy, in Mahābhārata, Malayalam, Marathi, and nyāsa, overview, and personhood vs. self, review, riding/mounting, Sri Lanka, Tamil/Simhala, Telugu, text sources for, Tulu/Irula, Urdu, and Vedas
Vodoun
Vogt, Beatrice
vṛtragraha
vyākaraṇa
vyāptitva
Vyāsa
Wade, T. E.
Wadley, Susan S.
Wagle, N. K.
Walsch, Neale Donald
Walters, Jonathan
Wayman, Alex
Weber, Max
Weiss, Mitchell
Western discourses, and bhūtavidyā, and brahmanism, and contemporary Āyurveda, on emotion, on experience, and healing, influence of, on personhood, and psychiatric/psychoanalytic theories, and sexuality, and shamanism, and study of possession, and Tantra, and vocabularies of possession, See also Christianity; orientalism
White, David Gordon
Wijesekera, O. H. de A.
Will, S. S.
Winquist, Charles E.
Wirz, Paul
women: and gandharvas, and transfer of essence, See also gender; women’s preponderance in possession
women’s preponderance in possession, and abandonment of self, and aṇaṅku, and association of possession with low social status, and bhūtavidyā, and biography, and Buddhism, and contemporary Āyurveda, and control, and education, and ethnographic overview, and female competence, and fluid/multiple self, jhākri, and localization of divinity, and New Age trance channeling, and śakti, and sexuality, and social control/resistance, and Tamil/Simhala vocabularies of possession
Woodroffe, John
Wujastyk, Dominik
Xu Chaolong
Yajñavarāha
Yajurveda (YV)
yakädurā
yakku
yakṣa
yaktovil
yantras
Yaśodharacarita (Vāḍirāja)
Yocum, Glenn E.
yoga, and Āyurveda, and body, enlightenment in, and fiction, and nyāsa, practice, and Śaṅkara’s possession of Amaruka, and Tibetan Buddhism, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci, and vocabularies of possession, Yogavāsiṣṭha
Yogacūḍāmaṇi Upaniṣad
Yogaratnākara (YR)
Yogaśāstra (Hemacandra)
Yogasiddhāntacandrikā (Nārāyaṇa Tīrtha)
Yogaśikha Upaniṣad
Yogasūtras (YS) (Patañjali) āveśa in, and Āyurveda, and Buddhism, on citta, on nāḍis, samādhi in, on samāpatti, and Vipula Bhārgava’s possession of Ruci
Yogavāsiṣṭha
yogenānupraviśya
Yoginītantras
Yuktidīpikā
yuktivyapāśraya
Zarrilli, Phillip
Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus
Zvelebil, Kamil
Zydenbos, Robert
Zysk, Kenneth G.