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Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9788120813595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Present Volume (No. 25 Of The Harvard Oriental Series) Contains Dr. A.B. Keith`S English Translation Of The Aitareya And Kausitaki Brahmanas Of Rgveda. This Monumental Work Is An Excellent Contribution To The Knowledge Of Sacrificial Cult That Characterized Indian Life In The Vedic Age.
Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Somerled Macdonald
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laurie L. Patton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-06-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0520930886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Terence Day
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0889208387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly textual source of the vast body of Dharmasastra literature of India on religion, law, and morality contain numerous statements that present or imply an undefined conception of punishment. Yet nowhere is this conception formally defined, as if knowledge of its nature and structure were generally known. In this “first-ever” attempt to provide a definition of the conception and to recover its ideational infrastructure, the author has drawn on these sources to reconstruct the theoretical backgrounds of its distinctive metaphysical, religious, juridical, social, and moral components. He shows that the conception is “the totality of correction principles, powers, agents, processes, and operations through which acts contrary to the Universal Order are counteracted and compensated.” The volume contains extensive documentation, a glossary of Sanskrit terms, a selected bibliography, and an index.
Author: T. G. Chaudhuri
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995-11-14
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520088405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the theme that women are objectified as sexual and reproductive bodies by symbolic beheading in myths and by such practices as veiling, head coverings, and cosmetic highlighting. Shows how women's heads link them to speech, identity, and mind, all characteristics classically reserved for men, and how beheading women reduces them to mute and anonymous flesh. Most of the examples are drawn from Oriental, classical Greek and Roman, and early Christian contexts, but some modern cases are also examined. The seven essays were presented at a panel of the American Academy of Religion, date and place not noted. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Deborah A. Soifer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1991-11-08
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780791408001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sanskrit Puranas and epics are replete with stories of the avatars, incarnations of the god Visnu in various forms to rid the universe of malevolent forces and to restore the proper cosmic balance. As Narasimha, half-man half-lion, Visnu finds a loophole in the pact of invulnerability the demon Hiranaipu has received from god Brahma, and rends the demon apart with his claws. As the brahmin dwarf, Vamana, Visnu deceives the demon Bali with his diminutive appearance and thwarts Bali's attempt to gain universal sovereignty. After carefully analyzing the myths of Vamana and Narasimha, Deborah Soifer grounds her study in the textual history of each avatar and its myth, in their religious contexts, and in the intricate cosmology of the classical period of Hinduism. Contrasting the bestial persona of Narasimha with Vamana's priestly appearance and his associations with early cosmologic themes, she finds complementarity and significance in this pair as they are viewed in the larger context of periodic cosmic destructions and recreations. While focusing primarily on these two mythological figures, Soifer's work explores the relationship between dharma and the 'devious' acts of gods; the interplay between cosmic and 'sociocosmic' levels of reality; and the relationship between cosmology, theology, and soteriology in a religious worldview.
Author: Dhirendra Nath Paul
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-03-21
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9004315519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia. Brahmanism spread over this vast area without the support of an empire, without the help of conquering armies, and without the intermediary of religious missionaries. This phenomenon has no parallel in world history, yet shaped a major portion of the surface of the earth for a number of centuries. This book focuses on the formative period of this phenomenon, roughly between Alexander and the Guptas.
