By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
"Dazzling research. . . . The e-book is company and convincing when you enjoy its valuable aspect, that is that during conventional Hindu idea the dream is not an twist of fate or byway of expertise, yet fairly the locus of epistemology. In its willful confusion of different types, its teasing readiness to blur the road among the imagined and the genuine, the dream really embodies the full challenge of data. . . . [O'Flaherty] desires to make your psychological flesh creep, and he or she succeeds."—Mark Caldwell, Village Voice
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