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Divination

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Author

Editor

  • Knut Jacobsen

Summary, in English

Suggesting a twofold model of classification for varying forms of divination, the article briefly describes, from a historical perspective, a number of prominent Hindu divinatory techniques such as animal omens, oneiromancy, physiognomy, chiromancy, pneumomancy, oracular voices, bibliomancy and geomancy.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Publication/Series

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Volume

2

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Brill

Topic

  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-90-04-17893-9