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Acknowledgements are given separately for each of the chapters, but here I want to express my sincere gratefulness especially to my colleague and friend Govinda Tandan who shared with me his detailed knowledge of Deopatan. I am also grateful to Mrityunjaya Karmacarya and Madan Bhatta for all kind of background information, Nutan Sharma for his patience and help with many questions and for preparing the legend for the plates in chapter 7, my Nepālī teacher Laxmi Nath Srestha for his help in the early period of my fieldwork, Philip Pierce, Katja Ehrhadt, Katrina Kelsey, Anand Mishra and William “Bill” Templer for translating, or revising my English, and, as ever, Niels and Wau Gutschow for manifold advice and hospitality. I also thank Anand Mishra and Bao Do for their help in the editing process. In a special way I am grateful to Christiane Brosius for her constant encouragement to return to my studies on the Paśupatinātha Temple and for her criticism.
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