Cremation, Caste, and Cosmogony in Karmic Traditions.

Fig. 12.1 Sadhu fasting for Nepali priests and a pure Bagmati River 188
Fig. 12.2 Cremains from the previous funeral are carried away while other cremations take
place
191
Fig. 12.3 Clothes from the deceased are picked up from the river while the dead is being
cremated
191
Fig. 12.4 Cleaning station treating Bagmati River 193
Fig. 12.5 Cleaning station treating Bagmati River 193
Fig. 12.6 The outlet of treated water which is transferred back into Bagmati River 194
Fig. 12.7 The costs and calculations of the proposed dam 195
Fig. 12.8 The location of the proposed dam 195
Fig. 12.9 Bagmati River in a highly contaminated condition before 2002. 197
Fig. 12.10 Bagmati River with clean but almost no water, 2002 198
Fig. 12.11 Bagmati River with blended water, 2003 198
Fig. 13.1 Decaying corpse at Nire Ghat, Baglung 204
Fig. 13.2 Decaying corpse at Nire Ghat, Baglung 204
Fig. 13.3 Husband cremated with his wife's jewellery on his chest, Nire Ghat, Baglung 209
Fig. 13.4 Death and life-cycles 209
Fig. 14.1 Jung Bahadur Rana 221
Fig. 14.2 Royal genealogy of the Mallas 223
Fig. 15.1 Gundestrup cauldron with yogic rituals, inferred from the poses of an antler-bearing
man, which bear similarities to an ox-headed figure on a seal impress from the
Indian city of Mohenjo-Daro
234
Fig. 16.1 Maneckji Seti Agiary in Bombay 240
Fig. 16.2 The Achaemenians 550-331 BCE 242
Fig. 16.3 Zoroastrian ossuary from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 7th Century CE 244
Fig. 16.4 Zarathushtra and fire-temple 246
Fig. 16.5 Fravashi – the guiding spirit 246
Fig. 16.6 Inside a Tower of Silence, from Modi 1923, p. 232 248
Fig. 16.7 Zarathushtra 250
Fig. 17.1 Map of Taxila 255
Fig. 17.2 Jandial Temple: plan of the temple. From Marshall (1960), fig. 5. 259
Fig. 17.3 Temple of Jandial from South-East. From Marshall (1960), plate VIII. 261
Fig. 17.4 Dharmarajika: view of the Great Stupa from north-west. From Marshall (1960),
plate IX.
261
Fig. 17.5 Dharmarajika: plan of remains in stupa area. From Marshall (1960), fig. 6. 262
Fig. 17.6 Buddha from Building L near the Dharmarajika Stupa, from Marshall 1951c, plate
221
264
Fig. 17.7 Bodhisattva Maitreya, from Marshall 1951c, plate 223 265
Fig. 17.8 The “smaller” Buddha statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, which is 120 feet high 266
Fig. 17.9 Mohenjo-daro and the Indus River 270
Fig. 17.10 The Great Bath. From Marshall 1931 272
Fig. 18.1 Picture of Ram Mani Gyawali, The Kathmandu Post 309
Fig. 18.2 Picture of Naraharinath, The Rising Nepal 309
Fig. 18.3 Ram Mani Gyawali, author’s photograph 312
Fig. 18.4 Street children begging for money in Varanasi 312