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Book Synopsis A Survey of Hinduism by : Klaus K. Klostermaier
Download or read book A Survey of Hinduism written by Klaus K. Klostermaier and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this well-regarded introduction to Hinduism adds new material on the religion’s origins, on its relations with rival traditions, and on Hindu science.
Book Synopsis Sacrifice in India by : Sindhu S. Dange
Download or read book Sacrifice in India written by Sindhu S. Dange and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Śrauta Sacrifices in Kerala by : V. Govindan Namboodiri
Download or read book Śrauta Sacrifices in Kerala written by V. Govindan Namboodiri and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lords of the Sea: The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar (1663-1723) by : Binu John Mailaparambil
Download or read book Lords of the Sea: The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar (1663-1723) written by Binu John Mailaparambil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing mainly on the Mappila Muslim trading family of the Arackal Ali Rajas, this book throws light on the repercussions of European commercial expansion on the traditional socio-political relations in the South Indian kigdom of Cannanore during the early-modern period.
Download or read book Kerala Brahmins in Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vedic Voices written by David M. Knipe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children, and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After successful examinations these young men will reside with the Veda family girls they married as children years before, take their places in the oral transmission of a three-thousand-year Vedic heritage, teach the Taittiriya collection of texts to their own sons, and undertake with their wives the major and minor sacrifices performed by their ancestors for some three millennia. Coastal Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has received scant attention from historians of religion and anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. Vedic Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the region. Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside world.
Book Synopsis The Broken World of Sacrifice by : J. C. Heesterman
Download or read book The Broken World of Sacrifice written by J. C. Heesterman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
Download or read book Journal of Kerala Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in Kerala Sanskrit Literature by : En. Vi. Pi Uṇittiri
Download or read book Studies in Kerala Sanskrit Literature written by En. Vi. Pi Uṇittiri and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Śrīkr̥ṣṇavijaya of Śaṅkarakavi, a Critical Study by : Reeja B. Kavanal
Download or read book Śrīkr̥ṣṇavijaya of Śaṅkarakavi, a Critical Study written by Reeja B. Kavanal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study of Stylistics in Sanskrit Poetics by : T. Vasudevan
Download or read book A Study of Stylistics in Sanskrit Poetics written by T. Vasudevan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Vakroktijīvita, work on Sanskrit poetics by Kuntaka, fl. 950-1000.
Download or read book Keralodaya written by Dharmmarāj Aṭāṭṭ and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Keralodaya of Ke. En. El̲uttacchan, b. 1911.
Book Synopsis Peeps and Perceptions by : P. V. Ramankutty
Download or read book Peeps and Perceptions written by P. V. Ramankutty and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of some of the Sanskrit works.
Book Synopsis Aryans in South India by : P. P. Nārāyanan Nambūdiri
Download or read book Aryans in South India written by P. P. Nārāyanan Nambūdiri and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 600 BC the Aryans of North India during their exploratory travels down south of the Vindhyas decided to settle in the area known today as South India. The Process of cross cultural fertilisation and interminglign with the original inhabitants resulted in the birth of the Nambudiris, a high caste community found largely in Kerala State. Against the backdrop of the Aryan drama is traced the history, social structure and culture of the Nambudiris; also their inestimable valuable contributions to Hindu civilization and culture. Concerned largely with the birth, rise, decline and rise all over again of the Nambudiris, this honest and dispassionate study by a Nambudhiri himself, traces lucidly their unique social divisions, their important and valuable contributions to religion, literature and language and their pioneering promotion of the Indian system of medicine.
Book Synopsis Proceedings by : Indian History Congress
Download or read book Proceedings written by Indian History Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice by : Gavin Flood
Download or read book The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Practice written by Gavin Flood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion (bhakti), including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time. Some of these practices, notably those denoted by the term yoga, are orientated towards salvation from the cycle of reincarnation and go back several thousand years. These practices, borne witness to in ancient texts called Upaniṣads, as well as in other traditions, notably early Buddhism and Jainism, are the subject of this volume in the Oxford History of Hinduism. Practices of meditation are also linked to asceticism (tapas) and its institutional articulation in renunciation (saṃnyăsa). There is a range of practices or disciplines from ascetic fasting to taking a vow (vrata) for a deity in return for a favour. There are also devotional practices that might involve ritual, making an offering to a deity and receiving a blessing, dancing, or visualization of the master (guru). The overall theme—the history of religious practices—might even be seen as being within a broader intellectual trajectory of cultural history. In the substantial introduction by the editor this broad history is sketched, paying particular attention to what we might call the medieval period (post-Gupta) through to modernity when traditions had significantly developed in relation to each other. The chapters in the book chart the history of Hindu practice, paying particular attention to indigenous terms and recognizing indigenous distinctions such as between the ritual life of the householder and the renouncer seeking liberation, between 'inner' practices of and 'external' practices of ritual, and between those desirous of liberation (mumukṣu) and those desirous of pleasure and worldly success (bubhukṣu). This whole range of meditative and devotional practices that have developed in the history of Hinduism are represented in this book.
Book Synopsis Vedic Domestic Fire-ritual, Sthālīpāka by : Musashi Tachikawa
Download or read book Vedic Domestic Fire-ritual, Sthālīpāka written by Musashi Tachikawa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of fire is a very important event in the human civilization. In ancient times, however, it was difficult to create fire. This gave rise to the idea of maintaing the fire all the time and also to fire-worship. Thus, the fireworship is very common in most of the religion in the world.
