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Author : H. G. Ranade
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
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:
Author : Chitrabhanu Sen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Vedic Rituals written by Chitrabhanu Sen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chitrabhanu Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Vedic Rituals written by Chitrabhanu Sen and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chitrabhanu Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780836461527
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of the Vedic Rituals written by Chitrabhanu Sen and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vedic rituals, dictionary.
Author : Chitrabhanu Sen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (461 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary Fo the Vedic Rituals written by Chitrabhanu Sen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swami Parmeshwaranand
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176250887
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vedic Terms written by Swami Parmeshwaranand and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frits Staal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184758839
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Discovering the Vedas written by Frits Staal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A Remarkable Book. It Untangles The Many Complexities Of The Vedas And Combines Staal S Scholarly Respect For The Texts, With Explanations That Are Lucid And Occasionally Witty. His Insights Are Thoughtful And Perceptive. Romila Thapar In This Unprecedented Guide To The Vedas, Frits Staal, The Celebrated Author Of Agni: The Vedic Ritual Of The Fire Altar And Universals: Studies In Indian Logic And Linguistics Examines Almost Every Aspect Of These Ancient Sources Of Indic Civilisation. Staal Extracts Concrete Information From The Oral Tradition And Archaeology About Vedic People And Their Language, What They Thought And Did, And Where They Went And When. He Provides Essential Information About The Vedas And Includes Selections And Translations. Staal Sheds Light On Mantras And Rituals, That Contributed To What Came To Be Known As Hinduism. Significant Is A Modern Analysis Of What We Can Learn From The Vedas Today: The Original Forms Of The Vedic Sciences, As Well As The Perceptive Wisdom Of The Composers Of The Vedas. The Author Puts Vedic Civilisation In A Global Perspective Through A Wide-Ranging Comparison With Other Indic Philosophies And Religions, Primarily Buddhism For Staal, Originally A Logician, The Voyage Of Discovering The Vedas Is Like Unpeeling An Onion But Without The Certainty Of Reaching An End. Even So, His Book Shows That The Vedas Have A Logic All Their Own. Accessible, Finely-Argued, And With A Wealth Of Information And Insight, Discovering The Vedas Is For Both The Scholar And The Interested Lay Reader.
Author : Margaret Stutley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429624255
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography written by Margaret Stutley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. This book, first published in 1985, covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the style of prehistoric art. The dictionary demonstrates the rich profusion of cults, divinities, symbols, sects and philosophical views encompassed by the Hindu religious tradition.
Author : David M. Knipe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199397686
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
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.
Author : Borayin Larios
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110517329
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Embodying the Vedas written by Borayin Larios and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world’s oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750–1200 BCE. The Vedas have been considered by many as the philosophical cornerstone of the Brahmanical traditions (āstika); even previous to the colonial construction of the concept of “Hinduism.” However, what can be pieced together from the Vedic texts is very different from contemporary Hindu religious practices, beliefs, social norms and political realities. This book presents the results of a study of the traditional education and training of Brahmins through the traditional system of education called gurukula as observed in 25 contemporary Vedic schools across the state of Maharasthra. This system of education aims to teach Brahmin males how to properly recite, memorize and ultimately embody the Veda. This book combines insights from ethnographic and textual analysis to unravel how the recitation of the Vedic texts and the Vedic traditions, as well as the identity of the traditional Brahmin in general, are transmitted from one generation to the next in contemporary India.
Author : Swami Parmeshwaranand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vedic Terms written by Swami Parmeshwaranand and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaṅgā Rām Garg
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788170223757
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World written by Gaṅgā Rām Garg and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keśava Pāṇḍuraṅga Jog
Publisher : Pratibha Prakasana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Aṣṭādhyāyī sahajabodha written by Keśava Pāṇḍuraṅga Jog and published by Pratibha Prakasana. This book was released on 1999 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed research papers chiefly on Vedic and Sanskrit literature and philosophy.
Author : Kathryn McClymond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887763
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Beyond Sacred Violence written by Kathryn McClymond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the modern Western world's reductive understanding of sacrifice simplifies an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities, drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices to demonstrate not only that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic, but also that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts--death and violence--are not universal.
Author : Dr. Victor Borde
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489732446
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)
Download or read book The Purusha Suktam written by Dr. Victor Borde and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interpretation of the Vedic text has been a prerogative of the Hindu Brahmins, it has always been interpreted from the religious point of view. This book’s approach is from the socio-historical perspective. It is a subaltern reading of the Vedic text, which not only establishes the fact that Purua-sktam is an interpolation but also unveils the reasons for its interpolation. The authors approach is both emic and etic at the same time; a perspective which bringing out unique insights. He has used a diachronic approach to trace the history of interpretation thus revealing the various layers of interpretations of this text. Beginning with contemporary interpretations, he goes down in history pointing out how the orthodox and classical scholars interpreted this text and going further back in time to unravel its origin and usage in the context of yajnas and nature religion.
Author : Axel Michaels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000059197
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Emotions in Rituals and Performances written by Axel Michaels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the idea that rituals are static and emotions irrational, the volume explores the manifold qualities of emotions in ritual practices. Focusing explicitly on the relationship between emotions and rituals, it poses two central questions. First, how and to what extent do emotions shape rituals? Second, in what way are emotions ritualized in and beyond rituals? Strong emotions are generally considered to be more spontaneous and uncontrolled, whereas ritual behaviour is regarded as planned, formalized and stereotyped, and hence less emotional. However, as the volume demonstrates, rituals often reveal strong emotions among participants, are motivated by feelings, or are intended to generate them. The essays discuss the motivation for rituals; the healing function of emotions; the creation of new emotions through new media; the aspect of mimesis in the generation of feelings; individual, collective, and non-human emotions; the importance of trance and possession; staged emotions and emotions on stage; emotions in the context of martyrdom; emotions in Indian and Western dance traditions; emotions of love, sorrow, fear, aggression, and devotion. Furthermore, aesthetic and sensory dimensions, as well as emic concepts, of emotions in rituals are underscored as relevant in understanding social practice.
Author : Michel Danino
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187748
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Lost River written by Michel Danino and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian subcontinent was the scene of dramatic upheavals a few thousand years ago. The Northwest region entered an arid phase, and erosion coupled with tectonic events played havoc with river courses. One of them disappeared. Celebrated as -Sarasvati' in the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, this river was rediscovered in the early nineteenth century through topographic explorations by British officials. Recently, geological and climatological studies have probed its evolution and disappearance, while satellite imagery has traced the river's buried courses and isotope analyses have dated ancient waters still stored under the Thar Desert. In the same Northwest, the subcontinent's first urban society"the Indus civilization"flourished and declined. But it was not watered by the Indus alone: since Aurel Stein's expedition in the 1940s, hundreds of Harappan sites have been identified in the now dry Sarasvati's basin. The rich Harappan legacy in technologies, arts and culture sowed the seeds of Indian civilization as we know it now. Drawing from recent research in a wide range of disciplines, this book discusses differing viewpoints and proposes a harmonious synthesis"a fascinating tale of exploration that brings to life the vital role the -lost river of the Indian desert' played before its waters gurgled to a stop.
