[INDOLOGY] the influence of shadows?

[Martin Straube]

Dear Jonathan,

quite a few references turn up if you search for "shadow" in the SARDS  
database:

http://www.sards.uni-halle.de/

With best wishes
Martin

Zitat von Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Might anyone be aware of observations about the influence of shadows in
> Classical India? There is a passage in a Buddhist text that speaks of the
> positive influence of a dhāraṇī text which is so great that, when it is
> held aloft, if one were to merely pass through its shadow... So I know that
> this is hyperbolic, but it set me wondering if there are other references
> to the effect of shadows...
> thanks!
> Jonathan
>
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> J. Silk
> Leiden University
> Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
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>
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-- 
Martin Straube
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Pali Text Society

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