Terrore e salvezza. Commenti su alcune divinità dell’induismo e sulle loro raffigurazioni

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Catalogue identifier: klm000085
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000085; Terror and Salvation: Remarks on Some Hindu Gods and Their Depictions
Author or attribution: Cinzia Pieruccini
Record type: Article
Language: Italian
Date / edition: 2014-07-24
Source / repository: Università di Bologna, AlmaDL
Access: Open access
Subjects: KLM Research Sources — Second Set, 5 November 2026; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies

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Pieruccini compares frightening representations of Śiva, Narasiṃha and Kālī as ways of confronting fear. The sustained final section considers Kālī-Cāmuṇḍā’s emaciation, death imagery, narrative setting and temple representation. It distinguishes sacrificial appeasement, Tantric confrontation and Bengali devotion to the Mother as different responses to divine terror. The conclusion interprets these images as invitations to face the world’s unpredictability, not simply as illustrations of violence.

Curator research source KLM000085, second set dated 5 November 2026. Verification, chronology, completeness, access and licence statements below are supplied by the curator, not a new independent audit by this library. Full texts are linked, not reproduced. Abstract languages do not change the full work's language label.

Terrore e salvezza. Commenti su alcune divinità dell’induismo e sulle loro raffigurazioni

Author and date: Cinzia Pieruccini • 2014-07-24

Publication: Università di Bologna, AlmaDL. Governare la paura. Journal of interdisciplinary studies 7 (1), special issue India and Fear: Anatomy of an Emotion, pp. 68–97; 30 PDF pages.

Language: Italian

English title: Terror and Salvation: Remarks on Some Hindu Gods and Their Depictions

Kali relevance: Dedicated Kālī discussion at pp 91–97, including Kālī-Cāmuṇḍā at Halebid.

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Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies

Dates: Modern secondary scholarship; Modern published scholarly text; see publication date

Verification and limits: Complete article and its dedicated Kālī section inspected. Comparative interpretations do not independently establish goddess origins or uninterrupted historical continuity.

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Cinzia Pieruccini. Terrore e salvezza. Commenti su alcune divinità dell’induismo e sulle loro raffigurazioni. Università di Bologna, AlmaDL. Governare la paura. Journal of interdisciplinary studies 7 (1), special issue India and Fear: Anatomy of an Emotion, pp. 68–97; 30 PDF pages. 2014-07-24. https://governarelapaura.unibo.it/article/view/4428/4007

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