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Author : Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645675
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Prajāpati's Rise to Higher Rank written by Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian K. Smith
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120815322
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Resemblance, Ritual, and Religion written by Brian K. Smith and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Vedic texts that deal with large-scale sacrificial ritual and those writings that deal with domestic ritual have traditionally been treated as unrelated. The former are devoted to the explication of rituals that are dominated by wealthy male elites; the latter concern humble private ceremonies more open to famale participation. Reflections on Resemblance, Ritual and Religion argues that there is in fact, a fundamental connection between these two large and important bodies of Indic religious literature.
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645748
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Functions and Significance of Gold in the Veda written by Jan Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the significance attached to gold by the authors of the Veda; the use made of it in rites and ceremonies (symbolical actions transferring its inherent power, purification, magic etc.); its importance as an element of theological and speculative thought, e.g. the figure of Hiraṇyagarbha in the Veda and the Vedānta.
Author : William K. Mahony
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791435793
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Artful Universe written by William K. Mahony and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042918436
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Strange World of Human Sacrifice written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438406959
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Veda and Torah written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlarges our understanding of the term "scripture" through a comparative study of Veda and Torah.
Author : Henk W. Bodewitz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400133
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Vedic Cosmology and Ethics written by Henk W. Bodewitz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ‘Vedic man’ think about the destiny of man after death and related ethical issues? That heaven was the abode of the gods was undisputed, but was it also accessible to man in his pursuit of immortality? Was there a realm of the deceased or a hell? What terms were used to indicate these ‘yonder worlds’? What is their location in the cosmos and which cosmographic classifications are at the root of these concepts? The articles by Henk Bodewitz collected in this volume, published over a period of 45 years, between 1969 and 2013, deal with these issues on the basis of a systematic philological study of early Vedic texts, from the Ṛgveda to various Brāhmaṇas, Āraṇykas and Upaniṣads.
Author : Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645705
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Mantra Interpretation in the Śatapatha-Brahmaṇa written by Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645713
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Prayer and Blessing written by Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004645691
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Rice and Barley Offerings in the Veda written by Jan Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644512
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Kṛsṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa and the Mahābhārata written by Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorship of the great Sanskrit language epic poem of India, the Mahābhārata, is attributed to the sage Kṛsṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa. This study focuses on the depiction of Vyāsa in the Mahābhārata, where he is an important character in the tale he is credited with composing. Other scholars have interpreted Vyāsa as an incarnation of Nārāyana Visṇu. This study, however, demonstrates that he is so depicted only very rarely in the epic, and that elsewhere the Mahābhārata portrays Vyāsa as corresponding meaningfully with Brahmā. Vyāsa is, in fact, the earthly counterpart to Brahmā in the Mahābhārata, as Kṛsṇa is of Visṇu, etc. The interpretation of Vyāsa is enriched by the different perspectives provided by other literature, including dramas, Jātaka tales, Arthasāstra, and Purāṇas.
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Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120808683
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Pravargya Brāhmaṇa of the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka written by and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated and translated ancient commentary on preparatory ritual to the Soma sacrifice of the Rgveda.
Author : Samir Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Deities in the R̥gvedic Brāhmanas written by Samir Kumar Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004077348
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Prajāpatiʼs rise to higher rank written by Jan Gonda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce M. Sullivan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833272
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Hinduism written by Bruce M. Sullivan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Hindu religious tradition's major events, individuals, texts, sects, and concepts in the context of its historical development through various periods.
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 : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019508327X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Āśrama System written by Patrick Olivelle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--Ä Å›rama and vará1‡a--Ä Å›rama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the Ä Å›rama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, he argues that the Ä Å›rama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.
