Title: India's "Tīrthas": "Crossings" in Sacred Geography
Abstract: Previous articleNext article No AccessIndia's "Tīrthas": "Crossings" in Sacred GeographyDiana L. EckDiana L. EckPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Religions Volume 20, Number 4May, 1981 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/462878 Views: 36Total views on this site Citations: 42Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1981 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Bhrigupati Singh What Comes After Postcolonial Theory?, Sophia 22 (Jul 2023).https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-023-00964-1Leena Taneja Losing and Finding Braj: Commodification and Entrepreneurship in the Sacred Land of Krishna, Religions 14, no.55 (May 2023): 643.https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050643Marzenna Czerniak-Drożdżowicz Nine Ponds (navatīrthas) of Śrīraṅgam, Cracow Indological Studies 24, no.22 (Dec 2022): 185–218.https://doi.org/10.12797/CIS.24.2022.02.07Srijita Chakrabarty Factors Leading to Disposal of Toxic and Hazardous Sacred Waste and Its Effect on Urban River Contamination: Case of Adi Ganga, Kolkata, India, (Jan 2020): 183–263.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25879-5_11Elizabeth A. 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