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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

Economy of Bhaktapur, 61 , 68

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


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Ethnic groups. See Non-Newar groups

Ethnography, 2 , 4 -5

European society, dichotomies m contrast to, 23 -25

Excretion metaphor. See Purity and impurity

Extraordinary symbols. See Symbolism, marked


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