Kingship and acculturation in India

See Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam, "Bhairava’s Royal Brahmanicide (), pp.157–229, esp. pp.174–77, 199–205, on transgression and kingship. For the role of (tantric) Buddhism and tribal religions in the royal festivals of Nepal, see also our joint-contribution "Between Veda and Tantra: Pacali Bhairava of Kathmandu (Towards an Acculturation-Model of Hindu-Buddhist Relations"—especially Elizabeth’s section on "The King and the Gardener"—in Robert Brown and Katherine Harper Lorenzana eds., The Roots of Tantra (SUNY Press?, 1998).