[INDOLOGY] Eating flesh of a jogi, a magician, a healer

[Artur Karp]

In Śahr Safidon ki Kahani it is the guru (Dhanthar Baid, Mbh.'s
Dhanvantari) who orders his disciples to cut and and eat his body - so that
his healing powers would not be lost.

Best, also -

Artur

2016-04-25 18:35 GMT+02:00 Dean Michael Anderson <eastwestcultural at yahoo.com
>:

> The place to look would be the texts and tales of "left-handed" tantra.
> I'm not familiar with the older texts but I do know that in places with
> famous burning grounds like Varanasi and Kathmandu the families guard the
> bodies to prevent tantriks from eating the flesh of the deceased. I have
> read about this in modern stories, and talked to people who have seen it.
> It is certainly very much still alive in the minds of modern Indians and
> Nepalis.
>
> Best,
>
> Dean Anderson
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:
>
> In "Śahr Safidon ki kahani" (published by Richard Temple, The Legends of
> the Panjab , Vol. I (No XVI,
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> Bombay 1884 [Reprints: 1962, 1977] -
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> his disciples eat flesh of their Guru, Dhanthar Baid - in order to gain
> his powers  Is this motif found somewhere else in Indian narratives?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Artur Karp
>
> Warsaw
> Poland
>
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