E
Earth,
basil plant (tulsica ), 392
Mobani barley, 527 -529, 531 , 534 , 551
prthivi[*] (deified), 192 , 512 , 746 n. 10
See also Agriculture; Plants
Eating. See Cipa (contaminated food) customs; Foods, household
agricultural, 62 -66, 695 nn. 6-8
barter and in-kind income, 67 , 696 n. 11, 697 n. 18
non-agricultural, 66 -68, 696 -697 n. 15, 697 nn. 16-17
Ego. See Kinship
Eight Mothers. See Astamatrkas[*] (Eight Mothers)
Ekadasi , 438
Elements of the universe, 415 , 768 n. 75
Elephant, Indra's. See Pulu Kisi
Elephant-headed god. See Ganesa[*] (god)
Emanation. See Nis:saran (emanations)
Endogamy and exogamy,
Newar thars and, 72 , 104 -105, 129 , 312 , 703 -704 nn. 48-50, 708 n. 36, 723 n. 22
See also Hypergamy; Kinship
Entrances, Ganesa[*] and Kumara at, 220
Epic, the Mahabharata , 252 , 254 , 421 , 452
Epistemology,
crises of, 31
Tahitian vs . that of Bhaktapur, 28 -32
Ethnic groups. See Non-Newar groups
European society, dichotomies m contrast to, 23 -25
Excretion metaphor. See Purity and impurity
Extraordinary symbols. See Symbolism, marked