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Book Synopsis Vedic Sacrifice by : Israyēl Celvanāyakam
Download or read book Vedic Sacrifice written by Israyēl Celvanāyakam and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Deals With Post-Vedic Developments In Under-Standing The Concept Of Sacrifice (Yajna) And The Response Of The Bhagavad Gita To It. The Book Argues That The Upanishads Present Vedic Ritual Notions Together With The New Teachings Of The Wandering Renouncers (Sramanas) Who Posed A Formidable Challenge To The Ritual Tradition And Its Social Hierarchy.
Book Synopsis Vedic Sacrifices by : Sadashiv Ambadas Dange
Download or read book Vedic Sacrifices written by Sadashiv Ambadas Dange and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas by : Uma Marina Vesci
Download or read book Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas written by Uma Marina Vesci and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
Author :Rick Franklin Talbott Publisher :Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN 13 : Total Pages :376 pages Book Rating :4.X/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Sacred Sacrifice by : Rick Franklin Talbott
Download or read book Sacred Sacrifice written by Rick Franklin Talbott and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sacred Sacrifice" examines how analogous mythological ideas and the experience of sacred presence during the ritual act created similar ritual paradigms in two non-contiguous cultures. Vedic fire sacrifice, the Horse sacrifice in ancient India and the sacrificial development of the Christian Eucharist serve as examples. This book takes to task theories on sacrifice and ritual that emphasize the psycho-social and functionalist interpretation to the exclusion of the religious. The relationship between myth and ritual, and conscious and unconscious human behavior emerges from this analysis of universal religious structures.
Book Synopsis Epics and Mahāpurāṇas on the Vedic Sacrifice by : Madhavi Narsalay
Download or read book Epics and Mahāpurāṇas on the Vedic Sacrifice written by Madhavi Narsalay and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Surā, the Liquor and the Vedic Sacrifice by : Madhavi Bhaskar Kolhatkar
Download or read book Surā, the Liquor and the Vedic Sacrifice written by Madhavi Bhaskar Kolhatkar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work Offers An In-Depth Study Of The Sautramani Vedic Sacrifice In Its Caraka And Kaukili Forms. It Shows How The Brahmanas Compare It With A Soma Sacrifice, And How Sautramani Itself Has Evolved Over Time.
Book Synopsis The Vedic Horse Sacrifice by : Stephen Fuchs
Download or read book The Vedic Horse Sacrifice written by Stephen Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aśvamedha written by Subhash Kak and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the ASVAMEDHA rite and its symbolism to explain distinctive aspects of the Vedic sacrifice system. Several questions related to the Asvamedha are posed and answered in the context of Vedic epistemology. This rite has three important functions: (i) it presents and equivalence of the naksatra year to the heaven, implying that it is rite that celebrates the rebirth of the Sun; (ii) it is symbolic of the conquest of Time by the king, in whose name the rite is performed; and (iii) it is celebration of social harmony achieved by the transcendence of the fundamental conflicts between various sources of power. Numbers from another Vedic rite, the Agnicayana; help in the understanding of several of its details.
Book Synopsis The Haviryajñāḥ Somāḥ by : Jan Gonda
Download or read book The Haviryajñāḥ Somāḥ written by Jan Gonda and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1982 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 2012-12-10 with total page 307 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.
Book Synopsis Bringing the Gods to Mind by : Laurie L. Patton
Download or read book Bringing the Gods to Mind written by Laurie L. Patton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly written book introduces a new perspective on Indic religious history by rethinking the role of mantra in Vedic ritual. In Bringing the Gods to Mind, Laurie Patton takes a new look at mantra as "performed poetry" and in five case studies draws a portrait of early Indian sacrifice that moves beyond the well-worn categories of "magic" and "magico-religious" thought in Vedic sacrifice. Treating Vedic mantra as a sophisticated form of artistic composition, she develops the idea of metonymy, or associational thought, as a major motivator for the use of mantra in sacrificial performance. Filling a long-standing gap in our understanding, her book provides a history of the Indian interpretive imagination and a study of the mental creativity and hermeneutic sophistication of Vedic religion.
Book Synopsis The Sacrifice in the Rgveda by : H. Aguilar
Download or read book The Sacrifice in the Rgveda written by H. Aguilar and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretive study of the Hindu Rigvedic rituals.
Book Synopsis A DICTIONARY OF THE VEDIC RITUALS by : Chitrabhanu Sen
Download or read book A DICTIONARY OF THE VEDIC RITUALS written by Chitrabhanu Sen and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Efficacy of Sacrifice by : Clemens Cavallin
Download or read book The Efficacy of Sacrifice written by Clemens Cavallin and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the sacrificial world view of the Vedic Brahmana texts with particular attention to the Aitareya Brahmana. The question in focus is how these texts argue for the efficacy of the Vedic sacrificial acts; how they built up legitimacy for sacrifices that became more and more elaborate, time consuming and costly. The main strategy of the Brahmana texts is to explain the power of Sacrifice as resting upon an intricate web of correspondences between entities within and outside of the ritual enclosure. The directions of these correspondences are mainly from the ritual realm to entities within categories such as Cosmos, Varna, Animals and Man. Of these, Man constitutes the most important category, and within it the breaths (i.e. the vital powers of man) occupy a prominent place. The frequent use of breath, or the breaths, as the goal of the sacrificial rituals, however, initiates a process that undermines the intricate system of correspondences. The sacrifice becomes dependent on human interiority both for its efficacy (the knowledge of the correspondences) and for its goal (the vital powers of man).
Book Synopsis Illustrated Dictionary of Vedic Rituals by : H. G. Ranade
Download or read book Illustrated Dictionary of Vedic Rituals written by H. G. Ranade and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vedic Mythology by : Arthur Anthony Macdonell
Download or read book Vedic Mythology written by Arthur Anthony Macdonell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bhāskaramiśra by : Frederick M. Smith
Download or read book Bhāskaramiśra written by Frederick M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study, with text, of an 11th century work on the Vedic rites according to Apastambha school of KrÆsĐnĐayajurveda (Taittiriya recension)