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Hinduism: Gods, Scriptures and Paths
Avatar and Incarnation
A comparative study of the Hindu doctrine of divine descent and the Christian doctrine of incarnation, based on the author's Wilde Lectures at Oxford. Parrinder surveys the avatar idea from the epics and Puranas to modern Hindu thinkers before turning to comparison.
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